Re: W3C test html5-002: where did the spaces go?

On 3/30/2012 12:13 PM, fantasai wrote:
> On 03/30/2012 11:54 AM, Eric Muller wrote:
>> On 3/30/2012 11:15 AM, fantasai wrote:
>>> 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
>>>
>>
>> As I noted, that's not the answer for the one after the <bdi>.
>> It's not at the beginning or end of a line.
>
> Ah, yes. The rule you're looking for is the one about removing
> white space surrounding a line break. (This happens before the
> actual line breaking and before reordering, so is not affected
> by bidi.)
>

Is it this rule:

"As each line is laid out,

 1. A sequence of collapsible spaces at the beginning of a line is removed.

"
> Consider just the first case:
>
> <div dir="ltr">&#x5d0;&gt;<bdi><br/></bdi> &gt;&#x5d1;...</div> 

I see only a space after the </bdi> which would be the first space on 
the rendered line.
I don't see a space before the <bdi> - did it get lost?

A./