Re: White space and inline elements (was: Re: HTML fixes (3rd time sent lucky)) from Terje Bless on 2001-07-24 (www-html-editor@w3.org from July to September 2001)

From: Terje Bless <link@pobox.com>
Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2001 00:18:36 +0200
To: Bjoern Hoehrmann <derhoermi@gmx.net>
cc: Eric <e.richards@clear.net.nz>, html-w3c <www-html@w3.org>, www-html-editor@w3.org
Message-ID: <20010725015020-r01010700-c2a075a5-0910-010c@192.168.1.6>

On 24.07.01 at 23:15, Bjoern Hoehrmann <derhoermi@gmx.net> wrote:

>  <p> This   is <em> very </em> important! </p>
>  <p> This   is<em> very </em>important! </p>
>
>I suggest to add a new item to section 3.2 of XHTML 1.0 that reads e.g.
>
>[...]
>  * Leading and trailing whitespace inside an inline element must be
>    moved outside the element content (except when the 'xml:space'
>    attribute is set to 'preserve')

I disagree. Thr relevant section should say "Don't do that then.". :-)

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