At 11:17 PM 9/23/96 GMT, Charles F. Goldfarb wrote: >Making it an "application convention" to strip what appears to be extraneous >whitespace (i.e., to figure out what is the "true information", just shifts the >burden from a few parsers to all applications and increases the chance of >inconsistent treatment). Applications already have this burden though, Charles. I'd expect any browser to collapse multiple whitespace characters into a single space unless I directed that I want "verbatim" formatting. Even with the quoted- content model, I'd expect this behavior. > Alternatively, telling the user that he can't put >markup or an included element on a line by itself just shifts the burden to him, >with even more chance of error if he doesn't have a validating editor. I'm sure you'd see a lot more errors with quoting. Even when programming, forgetting to put a closing quote on a string is probably the most common error that I make. Unless you treat the content of the quoted text as RCDATA, I think you'd also get a lot of strange looks from new-to-XML typists when you tell them that you can't put elements inside quoted text. bob Robert Streich streich@slb.com Schlumberger voice: 1 512 331 3318 Austin Research fax: 1 512 331 3760Received on Monday, 23 September 1996 21:29:59 EDT
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