Re: speaking of spaces and formatting....

[Chris Maden <crism@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

[apharris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> |   <para>Text
> | 
> | does not mark up the same as
> | 
> |   <para>
> |   Text
> | 
> | Namely, in the latter case, the RTF has a space (" ") kinda indenting
> | the first word of the sentance ("Text").

[Norman Walsh]
> This is, unfortunately, technically proper behavior.
> 
> Paragraphs are "mixed content," so that linebreak is as significant
> as inter-word space.

I don't quite follow that.  That record-end should be ignored, unless
KEEPRSRE YES is specified in an XML-style SGML declaration.  ISO
8879:1986 7.6.1 Record Boundaries says:

   a) The first RE in an element is ignored if no RS, data, or proper
      subelement preceded it.

So unless overridden by a WebSGML SGML declaration, the two markup
examples should be identical.

See also my poster with Gavin Nicol from SGML '96; I have PowerPoint
(yes, I know) slides lying around somewhere if anyone wants them.

-Chris
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