Re: nbsp question

On Tue, 10 Oct 2000, P. T. Rourke wrote:

> So you're saying that 1.) the webpage should show the character represented;
> 2.) the view source should show the named entity, and 3.) the saved text
> should actually have the numeric entity value?
> 
> Ugh.  Now if there's an application for Occam's Razor, this is it.

Not quite.  I'm saying 1 and 2 should be user selectable, but the
choice settings should be obvious to someone looking at the tool.

I'm applying the Razor to the case where I pick up your document
with numeric entity values in, but I want them in named form. You won't
be pleased if I push it through sed, do other edits, and send it back to
you with named entities in! :-)  Let the computer present the information
in the form the user wants.  The numeric forms are better suited to
machines than people.

> 
> Patrick Rourke
> 
	Hugh
	hgs@dmu.ac.uk
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Hugh Sasse Staff Elec Eng" <hgs@dmu.ac.uk>
> To: "P. T. Rourke" <ptrourke@mediaone.net>
> Cc: <www-amaya@w3.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, October 10, 2000 9:36 AM
> Subject: Re: nbsp question
> 
> 
> > On Tue, 10 Oct 2000, P. T. Rourke wrote:
> >
> > > Please use numeric (e.g., &#160;) rather than named entities to maintain
> > > closer compatibility with XML.
> >
> > Maybe the user could choose how these are seen?  I'd prefer these
> > numerical identifiers to be given names when possible, even if it is
> > better to have the numerical form in the text Amaya outputs to disk.
> > (See "The Pragmatic Programmer", Dave Thomas and Andrew Hunt, Addison
> > Wesley, Chapter Five, section: "It's just a view".)
> > >
> > > Patrick Rourke
> > >
> > Hugh
> > hgs@dmu.ac.uk
> > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > From: "Irene VATTON" <Irene.Vatton@inrialpes.fr>
> > > To: "A & R Sims" <sims@camtech.net.au>
> > > Cc: <www-amaya@w3.org>
> > > Sent: Tuesday, October 10, 2000 3:34 AM
> > > Subject: Re: nbsp question
> > >
> > >
> > [...]
> > > > The entity &nbsp; can be inserted in Amaya by Control+space.
> > > > When saving a document Amaya generates the ISO-Latin 1 code of the
> > > character
> > > > instead
> > > > of the entity value.
> > > > We could change the Amaya export if you think that the entity is
> better.
> > > > --
> > > >      Irene.
> > > >
> >
> 
>

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