On 4/29/05, Martin Duerst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > At 03:33 05/04/29, Alexey Melnikov wrote: > > > >Ok, maybe it is just me, but what does it mean to "collapse white-space"? > Does this mean to replace FWS (in RFC 2822 sense) with a single space? > > Making this more precise is definitely desirable. But there is also > an i18n issue: This works fine for languages that use spaces between > words. It doesn't work for languages that don't have spaces between > words (Chinese, Japanese, Thai,...). If Text elements are only used > for short things such as names or titles, that's not a big issue, > the text in question can just be put on a single line. However, > when the texts in question are long, it's a serious issue, and > should be fixed.
I believe the intent of this text was to match HTML's text treatment, so that implementations can avoid preprocessing whitespace. http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/struct/text.html#h-9.1 Suggestions for less vague text is welcome, but I want to make sure the text remains comprehensible to non-experts. Robert Sayre
