- From: Chris Lilley <chris@w3.org>
- Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2003 21:21:16 +0200
- To: www-svg@w3.org, Steve Schafer <steve@fenestra.com>
On Wednesday, June 11, 2003, 5:06:32 PM, Steve wrote: SS> What is the SVG Working Group's official stand on handling SS> leading/trailing whitespace in attribute values? For example: SS> <svg:rect width=" 2em " stroke-dasharray=" 1, 2, 3, 4 "/> SS> A strict reading of SVG 1.1 would say that leading and trailing SS> whitespace is generally not allowed, http://www.w3.org/TR/SVG11/text.html#WhiteSpace Note that unless xml:space="preserve" then leading and trailing whitespace is trimmed and contiguous whitespace is consolidated, in SVG. As for interior whitespace (eg, "a, b" instead of "a,b") the BNF for each attribute says whether whitespace is require, allowed, or disallowed. SS> yet at least some implementations SS> (e.g., Adobe) ignore it, and CSS2 allows it in most places. SS> Steve Schafer SS> Fenestra Technologies Corp SS> http://www.fenestra.com/ -- Chris mailto:chris@w3.org
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