- From: Henri Sivonen <hsivonen@iki.fi>
- Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2007 23:30:09 +0200
On Jan 23, 2007, at 23:15, Martin Atkins wrote: > Presumably its primary purpose is to act as a signal to generic XML > tools ? that don't have any special knowledge about XHTML ? that > they should not screw around with the whitespace inside PRE, etc. Exactly. On Jan 23, 2007, at 17:45, liorean wrote: > Well, considering the purpose of XHTML (main purpose is presentation > for humans, no?) is there any reason to NOT just set it to default to > "preserve" on the html element, fixed to "preserve" on the script, > style, pre and textarea elements and have it implied through an entity > for all other elements? Since this is about generic XML tools, XHTML-specific rules don't help. (And this isn't theoretical, either. I came across this issue when editing an XHTML document in oXygen.) -- Henri Sivonen hsivonen at iki.fi http://hsivonen.iki.fi/
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