- From: Jon Bosak <bosak@atlantic-83.Eng.Sun.COM>
- Date: Thu, 26 Sep 1996 14:39:14 -0700
- To: w3c-sgml-wg@w3.org
- CC: bosak@atlantic-83.Eng.Sun.COM
An implication of the ERB's current RE/RS proposal just posted by Eliot is that extra spaces within the text of a paragraph (for example) would not be collapsed by this rule (though of course they could be by the application). So people who have gotten into the habit of prettying up their source by indenting text (for example) will have to unlearn this habit if the receiving app isn't set up to collapse the extra spaces. Personally (speaking now only as the five-line perl hacker and someone who has to teach this stuff in two-day extension courses), this is fine with me because it's so incredibly easy to explain: you want spaces, put 'em in; you don't want spaces, leave 'em out. But I thought that this aspect should be made explicit. Jon
Received on Thursday, 26 September 1996 17:41:38 UTC