Re: [draft-freed-sieve-in-xml-02] Emphasis Whitespace Preservation

[Ned Freed <ned.freed@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

> Issue
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> Implicit whitespace preservation.

> Original
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> In "4. XML Representation of Sieve"

>   String, number, and tag arguments are represented as str, num, and
>   tag elements respectively.  The actual string, number, or tag
>   identifier appears as text inside the element.  None of these
>   elements have any defined attributes.  Several examples of arguments
>   have already appeared in the preceding control, action and test
>   examples.

> Proposal
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>   String, number, and tag arguments are represented as str, num, and
>   tag elements respectively.  The actual string, number, or tag
>   identifier appears as text inside the element.  None of these
>   elements have any defined attributes.  Several examples of arguments
>   have already appeared in the preceding control, action and test
>   examples. Any whitespace in the str body content MUST be preserved
>   by the processor.


> Rationale
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> This isn't a major issue but based on experience with HTML, developers
> too often assume that whitespace should be trimmed. It is therefore
> worthwhile emphasizing explicitly that whitespace is expected to be
> preserved.

Yeah, it sort of falls out of the whole empty whitespace text node thing and
how whitespace is dealt with in stylesheets. In any case, I agree with you that
emphasizing this is a good idea and will add the suggested requirement to
the specification.

				Ned