- From: Bjoern Hoehrmann <derhoermi@gmx.net>
- Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2001 00:08:46 +0200
- To: Lee Passey <lee@www.dysfunctionals.org>
- Cc: html-tidy <html-tidy@w3.org>
* Lee Passey wrote:
>OK, I'm still having some heartburn over this whole space-trimming and
>empty paragraph thing. I have two problems. One is that I would expect
>paragraphs with only blanks to be dropped or converted just like empty
>paragraphs.
Containing only _whitespace characters_, yes.
>Two is that I would expect non-breaking spaces to be
>treated just like normal spaces in this instance.
No, whitespace gets stripped on parsing in HTML (in XHTML it is stripped
in the First Edition, somtimes using special script dependend rules
preserved but not rendered in most cases), but is not a
whitespace character in terms of HTML/XML/XHTML.
>Consider the following five line example:
>
><p></p>
><p> </p>
><p><b></b></p>
><p><b> </b></p>
><p> <p>
>
>If run through the current (CVS) version of Tidy, they become:
>
><p></p>
><p><b></b></p>
><p> <p>
And running it again you get
<p> </p>
This might be considered a bug, Tidy should produce a canonical version
of the document (equal settings => equal result, no matter how often you
apply these rules) and here it doesn't. I vote for fixing it, your
example and the result after cleaning it two times render the same in
current browsers.
>In the case of the non-breaking space, I can see no value in treating
><p> </p> any differently than <p> </p>. What am I missing here?
The affects rendering, it must be preserved (for this reason and
according to the rules of HTML/XHTML/XML).
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