Hi Friedel,

F Wolff wrote:
> Op Ma, 2009-06-08 om 11:04 +0800 skryf Aijin Kim:
>   
>> Thank you Friedel!
>> I'll try the patch once I get it and let you know the result.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Aijin
>>     
>
> Hallo Aijin
>
> Did you make any change to the file? I just looked again through the
> specifications, and it seems that our old handling of whitespace was
> actually correct all along.
>   

The file has not been changed.

> My understanding is that unless xml:space="preserve" is specified, the
> application can do what it wants (the XLIFF specification talks about
> "default white-space processing modes" of the application). In the case
> of xml:space="preserve" the application must do what we have been doing
> all along anyway. For now I think we will start to specify
> xml:space="preserve" more often in the files we create, but we will
> probably not be changing our behaviour yet, unless there seems to be
> good motivation.
>
> Where does this file come from? My guess is that XLIFF files should
> always specify the spacing as they want it to be interpreted, otherwise
> it will be left to the application's default behaviour.
>   

The file is for OO.o documentation project. I guess it was extracted 
from the OO.o documentation wiki page.

Is there any possibility to prevent display of whitespaces and '\n's 
during Pootle online translation? If they are not translatable strings 
and should always be preserved, display of them could make translators 
confused.

Thanks,
Aijin

> For reference:
> http://docs.oasis-open.org/xliff/v1.2/os/xliff-core.html#xml_space
> http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml/#sec-white-space
>
> Any comments? Asgeir?
>
> Keep well
> Friedel
>
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