At 17:09 05/01/31, Henri Sivonen wrote:
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>On Jan 31, 2005, at 03:00, Graham wrote:
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>> "Software displaying this text SHOULD remove white-space at the beginning and end; collapse white-space between words; and disregard line break, tab and other formatting characters." in 3.1.1 (TEXT).
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>+1 with the minor nit that lone line breaks should be considered spaces--not disregarded. Thus: Software displaying this text SHOULD remove white-space at the beginning and end; and treat sequences of one or more XML white-space characters as a single space.
Except that that's completely inadequate for some Asian languages (Chinese, Japanese, Thai,...). Point to a spec developed by experts if you need to rather than trying to reinvent the wheel.
Regards, Martin.
