- From: Robert Streich <streich@slb.com>
- Date: Mon, 30 Sep 96 01:01:49 CDT
- To: paul@arbortext.com (Paul Grosso)
- Cc: w3c-sgml-wg@w3.org
At 06:02 PM 9/26/96 CDT, Paul Grosso wrote:
>> From: "W. Eliot Kimber" <kimber@passage.com>
>> The rules we came up with are:
>>
>> An XML parser shall interpret white space and record ends in XML documents
>> as follows:
>>
>> 1. All white space, including RS and RE, immediately following start tags
>> and immediately preceding end tags is not significant.
>>
>> 2. All other RS/REs are collapsed to a single space.
>
>Do you mean this as stated, or do you mean all sequences of white space
>consisting of RSs, REs, and spaces are collapsed to a single space?
I was hoping to see a response to Paul's question, but hadn't seen one yet?
I'm curious to understand how the proposal would address the white-space
in the following snippet.
<ROOT ID="H502400" RL="AD">
<DS>WFMD-AA, WAFE MAIN DRAWER</DS>
<Q UM="EA">1.0000</Q>
<DWG S="D" PP="5" RL="AB">
<USES>
<REF PN="B018547" I="1">
<Q UM="">6.0000</Q>
</REF>
<REF PN="B013284" I="2">
<Q UM="">8.0000</Q>
</REF>
<REF PN="B018560" I="3">
<Q UM="">36.0000</Q>
</REF>
...
</ROOT>
bob
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Received on Monday, 30 September 1996 02:02:20 UTC