- From: Martin Bryan <mtbryan@sgml.u-net.com>
- Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 12:00:32 +0100
- To: w3c-sgml-wg@w3.org
One of the reasons why people tend to find SGML's RE/RS processing rules
confusing is that people want to do different things with REs in different
contexts. Would it not be simpler to provide an architectural form that
would add a compulsory attribute, with a default value that has to be
specified in the DTD (if it is present, or defaults to a browser specified
default if it is not), that allowed users to specify clearly whether or not
they wanted RE's to be retained in a particular element, e.g.
linebreaks (spaces|hardline|ignore-after-markup) ignore-after-markup
By combining this with rules such as "strip any leading and trailing spaces
in an element" it should be possible to come up with clean but flexible
rules for processing RE's that would not conflict with SGML's rules.
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Martin Bryan, The SGML Centre, Churchdown, Glos. GL3 2PU, UK
Phone/Fax: +44 1452 714029 WWW home page: http://www.u-net.com/~sgml/
Received on Friday, 20 September 1996 07:15:13 UTC