Re: speaking of spaces and formatting....

Subject: Re: speaking of spaces and formatting....
From: Paul Prescod <papresco@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 24 Aug 1998 23:12:42 -0500
Adam P. Harris wrote:
> 
> Is this a bug in the SGML parsing?  A bug in docbook-stylesheets?  Or
> proper behavior?  Do I really have to make sure that text follows
> <para> tags without any space?

The parsing is correct. That space is really part of the data of your
document (unlike some other spaces, in other contexts). You can remove it
in a DSSSL spec by using process-children-trim instead of
process-children. You can debate with other users of the DocBook
stylesheet whether the use of process-children instead of the -trim
version is a bug or not...maybe some people want to start their paragraphs
with whitespace.

 Paul Prescod  - http://itrc.uwaterloo.ca/~papresco

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