- From: Bjoern Hoehrmann <derhoermi@gmx.net>
- Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2006 08:33:03 +0100
- To: Maciej Stachowiak <mjs@apple.com>
- Cc: www-svg@w3.org, www-style@w3.org
* Maciej Stachowiak wrote: >If the mapping is there, this would be up to authors, which is fine >by me. Although if "xml:space" has effects on text rendering that >differ per language, using it in a CDF context would be extremely >tricky. Note that default behavior without any xml:space attributes is already inconsistent, I'm not sure xml:space adds much to that. >You can't correctly mess with the text in HTML at all unless you >implement CSS and how how HTML presentational attributes are mapped. >And even if you can figure out the current whitespace mode, the >author may later use a different stylesheet, or may change the white- >space mode via script, or may transform the document via XSLT. > >So if a tool wants to mess with your whitespace, it simply cannot >avoid the possibility that it will break some documents. Well, I'd say that's why the XML gods gave us xml:space... -- Björn Höhrmann · mailto:bjoern@hoehrmann.de · http://bjoern.hoehrmann.de Weinh. Str. 22 · Telefon: +49(0)621/4309674 · http://www.bjoernsworld.de 68309 Mannheim · PGP Pub. KeyID: 0xA4357E78 · http://www.websitedev.de/
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