- From: Martin Duerst <duerst@w3.org>
- Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2003 17:09:37 -0500
- To: www-html-editor@w3.org
In http://www.w3.org/TR/1999/REC-html401-19991224/, the word white space is used in various places, with different definitions, but without a clear distinction of these definitions. In particular, http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/struct/text.html#h-9.1 includes ZWSP (​) in whitespace for rendering purposes (Thai and similar languages) in content. On the other hand, this character is not included as a separator in http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/sgml/sgmldecl.html, for obvious purposes (it would be a bad idea to not have a visible space between two attributes). This has recently led to quite some confusion on unicode@unicode.org. If this hasn't been done already, I request that you check all the occurrences of the term 'white space' and clarify that there are two different concepts, and which of these concepts is used in each instance. Thanks and regards, Martin.
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