- From: Ivan Herman <ivan@w3.org>
- Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2007 14:48:00 +0200
- To: Mark Birbeck <mark.birbeck@formsPlayer.com>
- Cc: Ben Adida <ben@adida.net>, "Hausenblas, Michael" <michael.hausenblas@joanneum.at>, Shane McCarron <shane@aptest.com>, "public-rdf-in-xhtml-tf.w3.org" <public-rdf-in-xhtml-tf@w3.org>
- Message-ID: <46FBA680.7030004@w3.org>
Sigh.:-( You mean: the DOM calls give you a normalized version of strings instead of what comes through the wire? :-( :-( Is that actually conformant behaviour for a browser when implementing the DOM? I wonder... Ivan Mark Birbeck wrote: > Hi Ivan, > > But just to recap what the problem is, in some browsers we simply > cannot get all of the data. So we had to make a decision as to whether > to insist that all whitespace is preserved, thus condemning > browser-based RDFa parsers to be non-conformant, or to define things > based on the lowest common denominator--normalised whitespace. We > chose the latter approach, and there is no way to axctually know what > spaces were there in the first place...unfortunately. > > So unless someone can find a cunning way to get the original mark-up > in browsers that normalise the whitespace, I think we're stuck. > > (I have to say though, just looking at this quickly I'm not seeing the > removal of any whitespace in my tests...I'll look into this a bit > more, but can anyone remember which browsers were giving us a > problem?) > > Regards, > > Mark > > On 27/09/2007, Ivan Herman <ivan@w3.org> wrote: >> >> Ivan Herman wrote: >>> _However_: I wonder whether this is the right thing to do for XML >>> Literals. I still think that copying the XML literal verbatim might be >>> the best option... >>> >> Just one argument that came to my mind: what should happen if >> >> - there is a <pre> portion in the HTML code >> - it is put into the RDF graph as an XML Literal >> >> I am not sure it is kosher to re-format that portion... On the other >> hand, I also do not think that RDFa processors should be asked to >> 'parse' the XHTML portion to make this type of decision... >> >> Ivan >> >> >>>>> And, of course, I am anxiously waiting for the >>>>> @instanceof finalization, to get that done, too...:-) >>>> working on it... >>>> >>> :-) >>> >>> I. >>> >>>> -Ben >>>> >>>> >> -- >> >> Ivan Herman, W3C Semantic Web Activity Lead >> Home: http://www.w3.org/People/Ivan/ >> PGP Key: http://www.ivan-herman.net/pgpkey.html >> FOAF: http://www.ivan-herman.net/foaf.rdf >> >> > > -- Ivan Herman, W3C Semantic Web Activity Lead Home: http://www.w3.org/People/Ivan/ PGP Key: http://www.ivan-herman.net/pgpkey.html FOAF: http://www.ivan-herman.net/foaf.rdf
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