At 11:41 AM 9/26/96, W. Eliot Kimber wrote: .... stuff about genesis of proposal in a phone call deleted ... > >An XML parser shall interpret white space and record ends in XML documents >as follows: > >1. All white space, including RS and RE, immediately following start tags and > immediately preceding end tags is not significant. > >2. All other RS/REs are collapsed to a single space. I like the consistency and simplicity of these rules, but the lack of any way to have a "verbatim" element is a fatal flaw. Pandering to typists is not a good idea, but removing useful functionality for the sole sake of preserving compatibility is far worse. I still have not seen any reason that we ever _need_ to ignore a linend character in an element. Given that, I oppose ignoring them all, just so that we can preserve SGML's bad habit of ignoring some. C showed us the way almost 2 decades ago: '\n' '\r' are whitespace, and characters _like any others_. RE delenda est. -- David --------------------------------------------+-------------------------- David Durand dgd@cs.bu.edu | david@dynamicDiagrams.com Boston University Computer Science | Dynamic Diagrams http://www.cs.bu.edu/students/grads/dgd/ | http://dynamicDiagrams.com/Received on Friday, 27 September 1996 10:39:38 EDT
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