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Re: white space handling

From: Jim Dabell <jim-www-html@jimdabell.com>
Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2003 12:43:21 +0000
To: www-html@w3.org
Message-Id: <200303131243.21687.jim-www-html@jimdabell.com> 

On Friday 14 March 2003 4:45 am, Sigurd Lerstad wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I've tried to find something on white space handling in html/xhtml (Just as
> it is described for SVG), but I can't find anything useful.

"In order to avoid problems with SGML line break rules and inconsistencies 
among extant implementations, authors should not rely on user agents to 
render white space immediately after a start tag or immediately before an end 
tag."

	-- http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/struct/text.html#h-9.1

-- 
Jim Dabell
Received on Thursday, 13 March 2003 07:47:07 GMT

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