I was taking a look at the issue where the text in a fo:block has a leading space added. I thought that by default, the initial spaces and LFs for such a block should be suppressed, but I can't quite find the place in the spec where it is defined.
At least 3 properties comes into play:
white-space-treatment (default: ignore-if-surrounding-linefeed) http://www.w3.org/TR/2001/REC-xsl-20011015/slice7.html#white-space-treatment
linefeed-treatment (default: treat-as-space) http://www.w3.org/TR/2001/REC-xsl-20011015/slice7.html#linefeed-treatment
white-space-collapse (default: true) http://www.w3.org/TR/2001/REC-xsl-20011015/slice7.html#white-space-collapse
For an example like this:
<fo:block>
This is a simple fo block.
</fo:block>, the text contains:
0x0a 0x20 0x20 0x20 0x20 0x20 0x20 0x20 0x20 0x54 0x68 0x69 0x73 ...
the spaces surrounding the LF should be ignores:
0x0a 0x54 0x68 0x69 0x73 ...
and the linefeed turned into a space:
0x20 0x54 0x68 0x69 0x73 ...
and last, two or more consecutive spaces removed:
0x20 0x54 0x68 0x69 0x73 ...
which is exactly what HEAD does!
But surely that can't be right. I must be missing or misreading something.
regards, finn
