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Re: Posted PaceTextRules

* Tim Bray wrote:
>Currently, the draft says *nothing* about xml:space (unless I'm 
>mis-using the search function).  If you read the specification for 
>xml:space (http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml/#sec-white-space), all it says 
>is that this is a message from the author to downstream software.  So 
>there is nothing anywhere that says anything normative about xml:space.

http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/2004/xhtml-faq#xmlspace cites a quite different
opinion on this matter...

>Is the point here to tell them that if they want to control the 
>formatting, they should damn well use type="HTML" or "XHTML"?  If so, 
>maybe we should spin the language around and say that:
>
>  When type="TEXT", receiving software has a great deal of freedom in
>  how it chooses to display the content.  Thus, publishers who want
>  to exercise formatting control should use the values "HTML" or
>  "XHTML" for the type attribute

It would seem authors expect that

  <atom:foo type = 'TEXT' xml:space = 'preserve'>...</atom:foo>

gets rendered as if it were

  <atom:foo type = 'XHTML' xml:space = 'preserve'>
    <xhtml:div><xhtml:pre>...</xhtml:pre></xhtml:div>
  </atom:foo>

What's the point of allowing such random results?
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