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On 12/07/2012 07:33, Pete Cordell wrote: > Any insights on why xml:space is considered useful, but something like > xml:href is not? Have you ever worked on standards committees? xml:space is the sort of thing that standards committees invent when they have spent several days debating a really boring topic like whitespace, when it's late in the evening, when there is little sign that they will reach agreement on whether whitespace is significant or not. So they decide to break the deadlock by saying "let's allow the user to decide", and they invent a switch. The fact that the decision is inconsistent with a decision they made the previous week on hyperlinking typically doesn't come into it; no-one notices the inconsistency until later, and by then no-one wants to re-open the topic. Michael Kay Saxonica
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