Re: its:span and withinText

On 8.9.2012 18:08, Shaun McCance wrote:

> I thought surely this is redundant, that its:span should be
> within text by default. Otherwise we basically always have
> to add that attribute when we use it for anything else. But
> then I couldn't find that anywhere in the ITS spec, and I
> realized itstool doesn't currently do that.
> 
> I think its:span should defined to be within text by default.
> Thoughts?

Hi Shaun,

this seem reasonable. On the other hand it will break backward
compatibility. But probably we don't have to care -- I have never seen
its:span used except test files? Is anyone using it? Almost all XML
formats have their own element similar to span.

    Jirka

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