On 12/27/05, Paul S. Person <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > When I Publish a document containing the lines > <ul> > <li> > <strong>strong</strong><em>em</em><cite>cite</cite><code>code</code> > </li> > </ul> > > Which displays in BXE (except that, in BXE, "strong" would be bold, "em" in > italics, "cite" in italics, and "code", with my CSS, in monospaced courier > new) as > strongemcitecode > (that is, with no spaces between the elements). > > After saving the page in and exiting from BXE, Submit and Publish /change > the file/ so that it looks like this: > <ul> > <li> > <strong>strong</strong> > <em>em</em> > <cite>cite</cite> > <code>code</code> > </li> > </ul> > and displays (again, "strong", "em", "cite" and "code" each has the proper > appearance) as > strong em cite code > (that is, with spaces between the elements). > > I really have no idea what is going on. My best guess is that HTML converts > the newline characters inserted by Publish into spaces. Given the general > disarray of HTML (or XHTML files: it does not matter if all the tags above > are replaced with <xhtml:> or </xhtml:> equivalents) files, it makes sense > that plain text would work this way: any number of spaces or other white > space characters are replaced with a single space. > > So, the problem appears to me to be that Lenya's Publish function is > introducing an unwelcome and unwanted reformatting to my document. I > know even less about how Lenya's Publish function works than I do > about HTML or CSS. And I don't know much about HTML or CSS at all. > > I would like, if possible, a simple, clear statement as to whether the > problem can be corrected and, if so, how to do it. What I am looking > for is something on the order of "open file MAGIC.XSLT and insert the > line <xlst:insert-no-whitespace-of-any-kind-between-elements"> in the > "sane behavior" section". What I don't want is a referral to a multipage > reference manual or an endless regress of Web pages which may, or may > not, actually contain the answer to the question.
First, this is working as designed. And it is the design of every browser, not Lenya, to convert all whitespace to a single space. If you want newlines, you must use the BR or P or another tag. If you want a single space, use any whitespace: all combinations of one or more spaces, tabs, and newlines will be converted to one space. If you want multiple spaces, use:   multiple times. If you want no whitespace, you must not include any whitespace between the tags. You can prove this by creating and opening a simple HTML file on your PC. It really helps to learn basic HTML before developing websites. There were many complaints in the early days of the Internet because the standard two spaces between sentences was converted to a single space for display. The English grammarists "created" a new standard (with a single space between sentences) for "electronic writing", because nobody has the power to change the HTML standard of converting all whitespace to a single space. solprovider --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
