Re: Generating line breaks from Ian Hickson on 2003-01-20 (www-style@w3.org from January 2003)

From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
Date: Mon, 20 Jan 2003 16:07:27 +0000 (GMT)
To: Etan Wexler <ewexler@stickdog.com>
Cc: "www-style@w3.org" <www-style@w3.org>
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0301201606290.13325-100000@dhalsim.dreamhost.com>

On Mon, 20 Jan 2003, Etan Wexler wrote:
> 
> Recent discussion has prompted some thinking on my part about line
> breaks in generated content.  The current problem is that line feed
> (U+000A) holds a priviledged position in CSS over all other line break
> characters.

This isn't a problem, it merely means that the layer above CSS is expected
to transliterate all newline indicators into U+000A. XML already does
this, for instance.

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