[Bug 1626] New: [XQuery] editorial: 3.7.1.3 Content: handling boundary whitespace from bugzilla@wiggum.w3.org on 2005-07-15 (public-qt-comments@w3.org from July 2005)

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           Summary: [XQuery] editorial: 3.7.1.3 Content: handling boundary
                    whitespace
           Product: XPath / XQuery / XSLT
           Version: Last Call drafts
          Platform: All
        OS/Version: All
            Status: NEW
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P2
         Component: XQuery
        AssignedTo: chamberl@almaden.ibm.com
        ReportedBy: jmdyck@ibiblio.org
         QAContact: public-qt-comments@w3.org


3.7.1.4 says: [For the purpose of identifying boundary whitespace], characters
generated by character references such as &#x20; or by CdataSections are not
considered to be whitespace characters.

So, conceptually at least, boundary whitespace must be handled before character
references and CdataSections are expanded. Therefore, I think 3.7.1.3 would be
slightly clearer if the handling of boundary whitespace were addressed by a
point between 1a and 1b, rather than a sentence in 1c. E.g.:

    b. If the boundary-space policy in the static context is 'strip',
       boundary whitespace is identified and deleted.

(I'm pretty sure this would allow you to delete the boundary-space sentence in 1c.)

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