DR 09-0026

[Alex Brown]

Dear all,

In my view it would be marginally better, in a perfect world, not to use
xml:space in 29500.

However, since it is used elsewhere in 29500 there is an argument for
adding it here, so that usage is consistent across the different MLs.

Overall this is a question of taste and I agree with Murata-san we
shouldn't dwell on it, as there are more substantive issues that await
us!

- Alex.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jirka Kosek [mailto:jirka at kosek.cz]
> Sent: 18 March 2009 11:14
> To: MURATA Makoto (FAMILY Given)
> Cc: 'e-SC34-WG4 at ecma-international.org'
> Subject: Re: DR 09-0026
> 
> MURATA Makoto (FAMILY Given) wrote:
> > I was probably the only person in Okinawa who opposed to the
addition
> > of xml:space as proposed in DR 09-0026.  As an expert, I still think
> > that this addition is not needed.  xml:space is for generic XML
tools
> > such as XML browsers.  Since SpreadsheetML documents are very
> unlikely
> > to be displayed by generic XML tools, every OOXML application
program
> > can be hardcoded so that it preserves whitespace, when necessary.
> > Note that DocBook 5 application programs are required to preserve
> > whitespace in the verbatim environment even when this attribute is
> not
> > specified.  Having said that, as a convenor, I am inclined to close
> > this issue rather quickly in Prague unless others also oppose to the
> > addition of xml:space.
> 
> Yes, the whole xml:space usage in OOXML is little bit perverse, but I
> think that xml:space should be added to SpreadsheetML to be aligned
> with WordprocessingML. (Actually I found this inconsistency myself
long
> time ago, but I haven't yet time to review already submitted comments
> and only "fresh" issues.)
> 
> 			Jirka
> 
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