- From: Stuart Updegrave <supde@microsoft.com>
- Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2000 10:14:49 -0700
- To: "'Bjoern Hoehrmann'" <derhoermi@gmx.net>, "Richard A. O'Keefe" <ok@atlas.otago.ac.nz>
- Cc: html-tidy@w3.org
Perhaps whitespace is not significant to the documentor the parser; however, it is often very significant to the humans responsible for editing the document. I suspect that this is what Richard was referring to. cheers, ~stuart Bjoern Hoehrmann [mailto:derhoermi@gmx.net] wrote: * "Richard A. O'Keefe" <ok@atlas.otago.ac.nz> wrote: | I wrote, about HTML Tidy changing the line breaking around comments: | > Certainly a problem, because the two have different content. | Alexander Biron replied: | Maybe I miss something, but an include file normally contains HTML, | | Totally irrelevant. The point remains: the comment moving that | HTML Tidy did in the original example CHANGES THE CONTENT of the | document. No. There is no change, whitespaces aren't significant at that point.
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