Re: Why is text crossed out in implementation guide?

I saw the new text after I sent that, thank you. 

- Aaron



From:
Michael Cooper <cooper@w3.org>
To:
Aaron M Leventhal/Cambridge/IBM@IBMUS
Cc:
"wai-xtech@w3.org" <wai-xtech@w3.org>
Date:
01/21/2009 02:33 PM
Subject:
Re: Why is text crossed out in implementation guide?



I haven't had time to make a general announcement of the changes I made to 
the checkin I did last night.

Any substantial content edits, I did with <ins> and <del> markup to 
facilitate review. I didn't do a lot of content editing, but there were 
cases where I really felt things were unclear, and the edits are attempts 
to make things more clear.

In the case you reference, the removed text is replaced by inserted text a 
little bit lower that says normalize the whitespace, including trimming 
any spaces you've added. I find that more clear and believe it doesn't 
change the meaning, but if you disagree with that, let me know.

Almost always, deleted text is accompanied by inserted text nearby, so 
please review deletions and insertions together. The default stying in my 
user agent is to render inserted text as underline and deleted text as 
strikeout.

Michael

Aaron M Leventhal wrote: 

Hi Michael, 

"Prepend a space if necessary: if the current node is an element and is 
not styled with display: inline, append a space character if the text 
equivalent result string is not currently empty. This space character 
should be removed at the end, if the entire text equivalent computation 
for an element yields no other results. " 

and 

"Append a space if necessary: if the current node is an element and is not 
styled with display: inline, append a space character. This last space 
should be trimmed off if it ends up being last character in the entire 
text equivalent computation for an element. " 

Why are the second sentences crossed out? It's necessary to do those steps 
so that truly empty names show as being empty. 

- Aaron 

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