- From: W. Eliot Kimber <kimber@passage.com>
- Date: Mon, 30 Sep 1996 19:13:34 -0900
- To: paul@arbortext.com (Paul Grosso)
- Cc: w3c-sgml-wg@w3.org
In following the subsequent discussion, I realized that my response to Bob
was flawed in that I forgot that white space following end tags and
preceding start tags is *not* ignored. Darn.
I've corrected my example below, using "@" for spaces.
E.
At 07:54 AM 9/30/96 -0900, W. Eliot Kimber wrote:
>>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>
>
>Using NSGMLS style output (and ignoring attributes):
>(ROOT
>(DS
>-WFMD-AA, WAFE MAIN DRAWER
>)DS
-@@@
>(Q
>-1.0000
>)Q
-\n@@
>(DWG
>(USES
>(REF
>(Q
>-6.0000
>)Q
>)REF
-@@@@@
>(REF
>(Q
>-8.0000
>)Q
>)REF
-@@@@@
>(REF
>(Q
>-36.0000
>)Q
>)REF
-@[...]
>)ROOT
>There is *no* uncollapsed space in the example because, unless I've gotten
>it horribly wrong, all the white space falls under rule 1.
I did get it horribly wrong. My appologies [why can't we just end this
madness! Just do what James says and nobody gets hurt...]
Cheers,
E.
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