On Jan 23, 2007, at 23:15, Martin Atkins wrote:
Presumably its primary purpose is to act as a signal to generic XML
tools — that don't have any special knowledge about XHTML — that
they should not screw around with the whitespace inside PRE, etc.
Exactly.
On Jan 23, 2007, at 17:45, liorean wrote:
Well, considering the purpose of XHTML (main purpose is presentation
for humans, no?) is there any reason to NOT just set it to default to
"preserve" on the html element, fixed to "preserve" on the script,
style, pre and textarea elements and have it implied through an entity
for all other elements?
Since this is about generic XML tools, XHTML-specific rules don't help.
(And this isn't theoretical, either. I came across this issue when
editing an XHTML document in oXygen.)
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