Re: speaking of spaces and formatting....

[Norman Walsh <ndw@xxxxxxxxxx>]

/ Paul Prescod <papresco@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> was heard to say:
| 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

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?

| 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.

This would be the only thing that you'd loose, but you could still say

  <para><phrase>     </phrase>My paragraph with leading whitespace</para>

if you were so inclined.

                                        Cheers,
                                          norm
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