RE: spec question xml:space=preserve

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Well I will let Glenn weigh in as the XML/XSL guru, but according to my literal analysis of the spec, and given where you have placed the space=preserve attribute, there are newlines to be preserved between the body and div and between the div and p; and since these are content elements, they need to be turned into anonymous spans containing line breaks.

Sean Hayes
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Microsoft

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-----Original Message-----
From: Philippe Le Hegaret [mailto:plh@w3.org]
Sent: 09 December 2008 14:44
To: Sean Hayes
Cc: Public TTWG List
Subject: RE: spec question xml:space=preserve

On Tue, 2008-12-09 at 14:21 +0000, Sean Hayes wrote:
> <tt xml:space='preserve' [...]>
>   <head>
>       <ttm:title>Content Test - tt - 002</ttm:title>
>       [...]
>   </head>
>   <body>
>     <div>
>       <p begin="0s" end="10s">This text
>  must appear on two lines.</p>
>     </div>
>   </body>
> </tt>

> I believe the rendered text in this case should contain two leading
> newlines before the two lines of text and then two newlines following,
> it for a total of 6 lines. I suggest we move the xml:space=’preserve’
> to the <p> element, or change the description.

That doesn't seem to me a correct behavior. Any character content within
the body element but outside a p element should be ignored at the
application level, independently of whether the white spaces are
retained by the XML processing or not. We're creating anonymous span
only inside p elements, we're not creating any outside p elements.

So I do believe that tt002 should be the correct behavior.

Philippe