- From: Paul Prescod <papresco@calum.csclub.uwaterloo.ca>
- Date: Wed, 02 Oct 1996 17:50:23 -0400
- To: Joe English <jenglish@crl.com>, w3c-sgml-wg@w3.org
At 02:36 PM 10/2/96 -0700, Joe English wrote: > >This is not the *only* solution. Another is to >forbid whitespace in element content. Yes! >Another >is to require that pseudoelements which contain >nothing but whitespace be "escaped" with entity >references. I suggested this, but I am not convinced it is "understandable" enough. >Still another (which nobody's mentioned >yet for some reason :-) is to forbid *element* content, >so that all whitespace becomes significant. Lee Quin suggested that. >The question is which of these options is the least >unpalatable. Personally, I find a solution that lets >me author in SGML and run instances through a simple >normalizer to be far more palatable than one that >requires me to add black magic to my SGML declaration >and all of my DTDs before I can publish XML. So you are supporting _which_ proposal? Paul Prescod
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