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Re: Current Status of Discussion on RE/RS Handling

From: Paul Prescod <papresco@calum.csclub.uwaterloo.ca>
Date: Fri, 27 Sep 1996 12:08:58 -0400
Message-Id: <1.5.4.32.19960927160858.0096b850@csclub.uwaterloo.ca>
To: w3c-sgml-wg@w3.org 
At 06:02 PM 9/26/96 CDT, Paul Grosso wrote:
>I don't know how much to weigh cases such as:
>
>	<p>He was <em>over- </em>sensitive.</p>
>which would come out in XML as:
>	He was over-sensitive.
>and in SGML as: 
>	He was over- sensitive.

Well, an SGML tool working with HTML data already has this problem, right?
For instance, in HTML, multiple spaces are collapsed, except in PRE. Can't
we treat the XML whitespace-in-mixed-content rules as application conventions?

 Paul Prescod
Received on Friday, 27 September 1996 12:14:09 EDT

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