Subject: Re: Formatting_the_result (in The DSSSList Digest V3 #186) From: MARK.WROTH@xxxxxxxxxxx (Wroth, Mark) Date: Wed, 6 Oct 1999 10:47:56 -0700 |
G. Ken Holman wrote (in response to Ron Ross and Brandon Ibach's suggestion to give OpenJade users the option of having the processor not put newlines into tags) <quote> I would *only* support such an option if it was made painful to use and if it were made obvious to a user about the impact on their data and then I would only support it under protest as I think it will be misleading for people. Regardless of the fact that people read markup, the computers that read the markup need to get the correct information. Why make it look nice in an editor if it risks modifying the information? Those who arbitrarily take the output from JADE and "reflow" the markup may be manually introducing data content that wasn't there in the first place. I agree this is a lesser-understood area of the standard, but it is critically important from a data processing perspective. I hope this is considered supportive to the discussion. </quote> I have three comments in response to this as an interested user: - Don't make options "painful to use". I have no problem with warnings and such to make sure the user understands the dangers of the option. But once I've decided to accept those risks .... - The substantive issue confuses me. How can an option which _does not_ introduce newlines change the data content of the document? If the concern is that the author/editor may change the data content after loading into an editor ... well, I can live with that; changing the content is why I loaded it into an editor in the first place. - Finally, and just speaking for myself, I would mildly like the three options of 1) the current insertion of line breaking; 2) insert nothing, and 3)insert line breaks and indentation to show the structure of the document (recognizing that in some documents this potentially changes the document). I'd make the default one of the first two, though. (P.S. my apologies for the style of quotation --- this mailer and I don't see eye to eye on the subject....) DSSSList info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/dsssl/dssslist
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