Re: speaking of spaces and formatting....

Subject: Re: speaking of spaces and formatting....
From: apharris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Adam P. Harris)
Date: 25 Aug 1998 12:17:10 -0400
Norman Walsh <ndw@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> / Paul Prescod <papresco@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> was heard to say:
> | Adam P. Harris wrote:
> | >  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

> Ah, yes.  Thanks, Paul.  I forgot it was that easy.  Ok, so I
> went back through the changelogs looking for when I removed
> process-children-trim and found:
> 
>   Replaced all the occurances of (process-children-trim) with
>   (process-children) in inlines (I suspect this is needed
>   elsewhere too).  Consider: "this <emphasis>is </emphasis>a
>   test".
> 
> But now I think that paragraphs _ought_ to use process-children-trim.
> Any disagreement?

Not from me!

.....A. P. Harris...apharris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx<URL:http://www.onShore.com/>


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