- From: Ian Hickson <py8ieh@bath.ac.uk>
- Date: Fri, 21 May 1999 14:34:30 +0100 (BST)
- To: Rick Jelliffe <ricko@gate.sinica.edu.tw>
- cc: www-html@w3.org
On Fri, 21 May 1999, Rick Jelliffe wrote: > 2.1.6 SGML Newline Handling Requirements, says > > Resolution: The document relies upon XML for its definition of whitespace > handling. This includes handling of line boundaries. No change to > the document is required > > However, XML 1.0 only allows "preserve" or "default", where "default" is > undefined, but may be the SGML behaviour. Because of this, the XHTML draft > cannot rely on XML for its definition of whitespace handling for "default". > > Suggestion: XHTML should follow SGML. Wouldn't XHTML actually have to use XML's xml:space="preserve"? The stylesheet would then say to collapse white-space (e.g., using CSS's 'white-space' property). If this isn't done, then surely there would be no way for white-space in CSS to work since the spaces would have been collapsed before getting as far as the renderer. On the other hand if the SGML default is used, I would recommend reading these three posts to www-html from last February: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-html/1999Feb/0034.html http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-html/1999Feb/0036.html http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-html/1999Feb/0037.html -- Ian Hickson U+2642 U+2651 U+262E U+2603 U+263A
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