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Subject: Re: XML apparently cannot be used for general text markup: whitespace gripe
From: Paul Terray <terray@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 19 Mar 2002 13:17:46 +0100

At 16:06 19/03/2002 +0200, you wrote:

Hi there,

 I've noticed a lot of xml-derived web pages out there have screwed up
whitespace (words crammed together or an incorrect space before ending
punctuation).

 My conclusion is that blocks straight text (such as paragraphs) cannot be
further marked up with XML without screwing up spacing.

They can. XML has a rule : multiple adjacent whitespaces or linefeeds are non-significant. However, you can change this behavior, by adding the 'xml:space' attribute on a node with the 'preserve' value, in the DTD, like this : <!ATTLIST listing xml:space (default|preserve) 'preserve'> This will change the XML rule, and all whitespaces as well as linefeeds will be significants.

Hope this help.

-- Paul TERRAY - Documents Management Systems Engineer email : terray@xxxxxxxxxxxx

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Re: XML apparently cannot be used for general text markup: whitespace gripe, (continued)
- David Carlisle - Tue, 19 Mar 2002 06:29:27 -0500 (EST)
- Michael Kay - Tue, 19 Mar 2002 06:37:48 -0500 (EST)
  - David Carlisle - Tue, 19 Mar 2002 07:25:49 -0500 (EST)
- Jeni Tennison - Tue, 19 Mar 2002 06:44:56 -0500 (EST)
- Paul Terray - Tue, 19 Mar 2002 07:14:19 -0500 (EST) <=
  - Chad Jones - Tue, 19 Mar 2002 11:26:08 -0500 (EST)
    - Paul Terray - Wed, 20 Mar 2002 05:58:04 -0500 (EST)
- Thomas B. Passin - Tue, 19 Mar 2002 10:33:34 -0500 (EST)
- Wendell Piez - Tue, 19 Mar 2002 12:05:13 -0500 (EST)

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