Re: W3C test html5-002: where did the spaces go? from fantasai on 2012-03-30 (public-i18n-bidi@w3.org from January to March 2012)

From: fantasai <fantasai.lists@inkedblade.net>
Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2012 11:15:32 -0700
To: public-i18n-bidi@w3.org
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On 03/29/2012 04:33 PM, Eric Muller wrote:
> Consider just the first case:
>
> <div  dir="ltr">&#x5d0;  &gt;  <bdi><br/></bdi>  &gt;  &#x5d1;...</div>
>
> The expected output is described as:
>
> <  &#x5d0;
> &#x5d1;  <...
>
> Where did the spaces around the <bdi> element go? where they collapsed because they are next to the <br/>? That's the only
> explaination I see for the one after, since it would otherwise be between the < and the ..., i.e. not at the beginning or end
> of a line.

Collapsible spaces are removed at the beginning and ends of lines.
See http://www.w3.org/TR/css3-text/#white-space-rules

~fantasai

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