REMINDER AND DRAFT AGENDA - Teleconference meeting of WG 6, 2010-06-23 at 13:00 UTC

[Svante Schubert]

Hi Alex,

thanks for the clarification.
I believe the previoiusly ignored was meant in regard of the output and
not the input/parsing.
In any case the sentence addressing the ignorance of whitespace was
already removed in the latest errata.

Let's see on the call if there are problems remaining..

Hear you soon,
Svante


Am 23.06.2010 14:46, schrieb Alex Brown:
> Svante hi
>
> On 1309:10 ...
>
> The XML Rec. says "An XML processor MUST always pass all characters in a document that are not markup through to the application." 
>
> This include white space characters. So the spec ODF saying that any white space characters "are ignored" is NOT in conformance with XML - quite the opposite.
>
> If a DTD were in effect a validating processor would be able to label some space as "ignorable" as it was passed through, but it would not be ignored. However, in ODF no DTD is in use.
>
> As I understand it, ODF wants to invent a equivalent way of having ignorable white space without a DTD. I think my proposed wording achieves that.
>
> - Alex.
>
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