- From: Tim Bray <tbray@textuality.com>
- Date: Sun, 17 Nov 1996 13:49:51 -0800
- To: w3c-sgml-wg@w3.org
At 01:22 PM 17/11/96 +0000, James Clark wrote: >At 19:44 16/11/96 -0800, Tim Bray wrote: >>Also - a very material problem - with the current language, it is simply >>impossible to base a full-text indexer on an XML parser; indexers often >>need to know the byte offsets of words in entities. >It is perfectly possible for a processor to collapse white space whilst >reporting byte offsets. In fact SP does it today (in public identifiers). Suppose I have: <p>Testing, one 2 three four five </p> are you saying that SP can tell me the byte offsets of the individual words in that text, while it also performs the -xml-space="collapse" behavior? This seems difficult - how is it accomplished? - Tim
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