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On 12/07/2012 14:18, John P. McCaskey wrote: > > <persName> > His Excellency > <forename>Edward</forename> > <surname>Smith</surname>, > Shire of <placeName>Westerland</placeName> > </persName> > > Clearly the encoder is expecting that during processing, space will get > collapsed and leading and trailing space will be trimmed. Ug normalising mixed content is hard:-) That I think would need to be TEI-specific, it isn't even normalising each text node separately as you'd get from <xsl:template match="text()"> <xsl:value-of select="normalize-space()"/> </xsl:text> as that would give <persName>His Excellency<forename>Edward</forename><surname>Smith</surname>, Shire of<placeName>Westerland</placeName></persName> Nor is it doing the white space stripping that xsl would do for <xsl:strip-space elements="*"/> which would produce <persName> His Excellency <forename>Edward</forename><surname>Smith</surname>, Shire of <placeName>Westerland</placeName></persName> So it is yet another choice so seems most natural to be specified at the TEI processing layer rather than in the document. (HTML has similar rules about which white space causes white space in the rendering, so if you replaced persName with div and the other elements with span it would be normalised as intended, but if you replaced persName with span then it would not and you'd get an extra space at the start and end. David ________________________________________________________________________ The Numerical Algorithms Group Ltd is a company registered in England and Wales with company number 1249803. The registered office is: Wilkinson House, Jordan Hill Road, Oxford OX2 8DR, United Kingdom. This e-mail has been scanned for all viruses by Star. The service is powered by MessageLabs. ________________________________________________________________________
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