Re: Whitespace question

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Subject: Re: Whitespace question
From: "Christopher R. Maden" <crism@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2001 06:28:02 -0700

At 06:07 18-09-2001, Ragulf Pickaxe wrote:

The problem, though, is that I only want ' ' preserved, not linefeed and all that kind of things - these are tagged in the xml document:

<Doc> This is the document with a line feed<Newline/>so this will be on a new line, but not<NBSP/> this, which will be on the same line<Bold> Bold text</Bold> <Italic>Italic text, which will be place besides "Bold text" because of the 'whitespace problem'</Italic> </Doc>

I search for NBSP, Newline, Bold, Italic and such and use the appropriate action to get the right output.

If you're converting to HTML, then it should be safe to globally preserve spaces. That example would become

This is the document with a line feed so this will be on a new line, but not  this, which will be on the same line Bold text Italic text, which will be place besides "Bold text" because of the 'whitespace problem'

which should be fine. The only possible problem is that you'll have a double-wide space between "not" and "this", but the normal space there is part of a larger text node and wouldn't have been stripped anyway.

In general, if you're converting to HTML, preserving space is OK because the browser will do the right thing. There are exceptions, of course, but this doesn't seem to be one of them.

-Chris
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Re: Whitespace question, (continued) Ragulf Pickaxe - Tue, 18 Sep 2001 08:08:03 -0400 (EDT) Christopher R. Maden - Tue, 18 Sep 2001 08:46:51 -0400 (EDT) David Carlisle - Tue, 18 Sep 2001 09:39:10 -0400 (EDT) Ragulf Pickaxe - Tue, 18 Sep 2001 09:19:08 -0400 (EDT) Christopher R. Maden - Tue, 18 Sep 2001 09:45:52 -0400 (EDT) <= Chris Bayes - Tue, 18 Sep 2001 12:27:39 -0400 (EDT)

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