Re: [xsl] zero width no-break space to prevent tag minimisation

["G. Ken Holman" <gkholman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 2008-10-16 17:09 +0100, David Carlisle wrote:
> > the following instance renders correctly in Mozilla and Opera
>
> what mime type?

I'm just opening the file from disk.

> If it is served with text/html
>  "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd";>
> is full of suntax errors, and  /> should produce character data in the
>  head, which is another error so

Did something get lost in my Eudora mailer?  I'm not sure what you 
are trying to say.

> > Is this not a browser problem?
>
> no, whether anything is rendered at all depends on undocumented error
> recovery that may or may not occur in the browser.
>
> If it is served as application/xml
> then
> opera and mozilla will do what you expect, and IE will correctly (more
> or less) parse it using msxml xml parser, the problem is not a parsing
> one, it's a rendering one, the rendering is of the markup, with
> javascript to allow folding the tree, as is done for any XML without an
> <?xml-stylesheet link. Again that isn't a bug, it's conformant to the
> specifications that it claims to support, it's just unhelpful.

The filename extension is ".xhtml".

In my customer scenario I am unsure how the files were being 
delivered on-the-fly, but authors doing a preview had the rendering 
problem with the bleeding formatting properties.

. . . . . . . . . . . Ken

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