El Lunes, 4 de Junio de 2007 13:10, Samuel Wright escribió: > Hi All, > > Could someone give me a hand regarding my understanding of whitespace. > Whitespace is significant in any element that can contain text, as I > understand it.
That depend on the xml:space value assigned to that element on the DTD, and on how the parsed used handles the "default" value. The definition discissed in the W3C Recommendation for XML-1.0 can be found here: http://www.w3.org/TR/xml/#sec-white-space > so > ---- > <para>sdfsdfsdfds<para> > ---- > > is better than > ---- > <para> > sadsdsd</para> > ---- Like said David, for block elements it not matter. > Does this apply also with subelements? > ---- > <para><simplelist>... > ---- > not > ---- > <para> > <simplelist>... > ---- If the child element is an inline, it might depend on the parser implementation. For example: <para> Some text <command>echo</command> more text <para> should be equal to <para>Some text <command>echo</command> more text</para> but <para> Some text <command> echo </command> more text <para> might be serialized as <para>Some text <command> echo </command> more text</para> That is why if some inline tag need be splitted to fit the desired file line length is better to do it on an attribute, if any. For example: <para>Some text <filename class="directory">/usr/local</command> more text <para> > What about editor indentation? Do all my <para> elements need to be at > the start of the line? You can safely to use indentation on all block elements, except on verbatim environments (screen, literallayout, and so on) -- Manuel Canales Esparcia Usuario de LFS nº2886: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org LFS en castellano: http://www.escomposlinux.org/lfs-es http://www.lfs-es.info TLDP-ES: http://es.tldp.org --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
