Re: 5 Whitespace Rules
James Robertson (jamesr@steptwo.com.au)
Sat, 09 Aug 1997 20:27:26 +1000
At 23:13 8/08/97 +0000, you wrote:
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| I think it's time to pin down some rules or guidelines regarding
| the use of whitespace. I am not suggesting that the following is
| exhaustive or totally unambiguous, but maybe it is a starting point
| for discussion. I would really like to see a small list of rules such
| as the following being defined, as I am sure it will help avoid
potentially
| damaging confusion arising when products arrive and prove to be
| incompatible.
| An application should remove or transform whitespace characters
| received from the XML-processor according to the following 5 rules:
[snip]
Hear hear. These are practical, useful rules, and I can find no
fault with them. They are certainly much more backwards-compatible than
the suggested solution of ignoring all line-end characters.
My vote: make it so ...
J
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James Robertson
Step Two Designs
Newton & SGML Consultancy
jamesr@steptwo.com.au
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