- From: Irene VATTON <Irene.Vatton@inrialpes.fr>
- Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2000 12:38:59 -0400 (EDT)
- To: Dan Connolly <connolly@w3.org>
- cc: www-amaya@w3.org, html-tidy@w3.org, Arjun Ray <aray@q2.net>, swick@w3.org, ij@w3.org
It seems a good idea to coordinate the management of line breaks in our
different tools.
> I use tidy and Amaya to manage XHTML documents. A major
> annoyance is that they break lines differently, introducing
> a lot of noise in my CVS/RCS history.
>
> A while back, we got some feedback on the XML c14n spec,
> proposing an alternative line-breaking algorithm:
>
> "In [...] significantly enhancing the utility of line-oriented text
> processing tools in dealing with canonicalized documents, I believe
> this alternative is worth considering."
> -- Comments on the WD - A proposed alternative
> Arjun Ray (Sun, Feb 20 2000)
> http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-xml-canonicalization-comments/2000Feb/0005.html
>
> Basically, you break lines between <tag-name and >,
> and after each attribute, and line breaks in character
> data get escaped ( ).
>
> I have written it up in some detail; please see:
>
> A Handy Line-breaking Algorithm for XML (esp XHTML)
> http://www.w3.org/2000/08/lb2/
> $Revision: 1.10 $ of $Date: 2000/08/08 17:25:41 $
>
> --
> Dan Connolly, W3C http://www.w3.org/People/Connolly/
>
--
Irene.
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