Response to WebCGM 2.1 Last Call comment: i18n comment 4: Stripping out all whitespace

Dear Richard,

The WebCGM Working Group has reviewed the comment you sent [1] about the 
WebCGM 2.1 Last Call Working Draft [2] published on 02 October 2008. 
Thank you for having taken the time to review the document and send us 
comments.

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On behalf of the WebCGM Working Group,
Thierry Michel, WebCGM WG Team Contact.

[1] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-webcgm-wg/2008Oct/0000.html
[2] http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/WD-webcgm21-20080917/
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* Comment Sent: 11 Nov 2008 10:28:28 +0000
* Archived:
http://www.w3.org/International/reviews/0811-webcgm/

The WebCGM WG has the following responses to your comment:
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SUMMARY of your comment:

Comment from the i18n review of:
http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/WD-webcgm21-20080917/WebCGM21-Config.html#ACI-fontmap

Comment 4
At http://www.w3.org/International/reviews/0811-webcgm/
Editorial/substantive: S
Tracked by: RI

Location in reviewed document:
9.3.2.2 
[http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/WD-webcgm21-20080917/WebCGM21-Config.html#ACI-maplist]

Comment:

For cgmFont normalization, do you mean "stripping out all whitespace" or 
normalizing white-space to a single space, as per substitutionList?

RESPONSE to your comment:

Resolution:

The intent is indeed "stripping out all whitespace". This enables 
identical normalization results, for example, for a font name that used 
whitespace instead of camel case on the one hand, and on the other hand 
a font name that used only camel case (with no whitespace), or one that 
used hyphen or underscore in place of whitespace. These are legacy 
situations that arise in WebCGM practice. Please see the response to 
I18N WebCGM Comment #3 for more detail.



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