- From: Paul Grosso <paul@arbortext.com>
- Date: Mon, 30 Sep 96 12:44:51 CDT
- To: w3c-sgml-wg@w3.org
> From: "W. Eliot Kimber" <kimber@passage.com> > > At 01:01 AM 9/30/96 CDT, Robert Streich wrote: > >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? > > My understanding from the conference call is that we decided that we only > needed to collapse RS/REs--spaces we could leave alone, except as specified > in rule (1). Consider the following example where I represent ALL RE's with @: <chapter>@ <title>The Title</title> @ <p>Here is paragraph one containing a bunch of gratuitous REs@ @ @ @ in the middle of it.</p>@ <p>Here is paragraph two containing a bunch of gratuitous REs @ @ @ @ in the middle of it.</p>@ </chapter>@ a. If 1 and 2 above are the only rules, then does that mean that the space and RE between the title and first paragraph are significant? b. Given the clarification of rule 2, then all of paragraph one's REs are collapsed to a single space, but paragraph two contains " @ @ @ @". Then, I assume rule 2 says each @ gets "collapsed" into a single space resulting in " ". Am I understanding this correctly? paul
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