- From: David G. Durand <dgd@cs.bu.edu>
- Date: Fri, 13 Dec 1996 15:59:56 -0800
- To: w3c-sgml-wg@w3.org
When I endorsed the 3-states proposal I unwittingly fell into agreement with the current proposal on a point where I disagree strongly: Initial whitespace, and final whitespace should collapse to a single space, not disappear altogether. This is the way HTML browsers currently work (try it in <td> in Netscape, for instance). I know this makes it impossible to ignore any RE after a tag start, but there was never an argument offered to support that behavior that did not beg the conclusion.... and otherwise, the whitespace folding now has two special cases, at the beginning and end of the string... -- David I am not a number. I am an undefined character. _________________________________________ David Durand dgd@cs.bu.edu \ david@dynamicDiagrams.com Boston University Computer Science \ Sr. Analyst http://www.cs.bu.edu/students/grads/dgd/ \ Dynamic Diagrams --------------------------------------------\ http://dynamicDiagrams.com/ MAPA: mapping for the WWW \__________________________
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