- From: James Clark <jjc@jclark.com>
- Date: Mon, 23 Sep 1996 11:07:38 +0000
- To: Robert Streich <streich@slb.com>
- Cc: w3c-sgml-wg@w3.org
At 01:50 23/09/96 CDT, Robert Streich wrote: >At 10:39 PM 9/22/96 GMT, Charles F. Goldfarb wrote: >>As you just demonstrated, you are forcing the author to both remember the rules >>and implement them himself. They are not simple rules; if they were, we >wouldn't >>be having this discussion. > >I think they are pretty straightforward: > > In data content: > 1. If an element begins or ends with a newline [not entirely > accurate, but this is what people see], the newline is ignored. > 2. Newlines inside markup are ignored. > 3. All other newlines are passed on. According to your statement of the rules all of the three newlines in the following would be passed on: <doc><?> <?> data <?></doc> In fact none of them are. James
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