[OASIS Issue Tracker] Commented: (OFFICE-2207) Whitespaceprocessing [N 1309]

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Dennis Hamilton commented on OFFICE-2207:
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Replace section 1.6 with the following (adjusted to use Unicode code-point notation consistently)

 = = = = = = = = = 
1.6 White-Space Processing 

An ODF processor shall ignore all element children ([RNG] section 5, Data Model) that are strings consisting entirely of whitespace characters and that do not satisfy a text pattern of the ODF schema definition for the 
element. 

The whitespace characters are the following [XML 1.0] Unicode characters: 

 * HORIZONTAL TABULATION (U+0009) 

 * LINE FEED (U+000A) 

 * CARRIAGE RETURN (U+000D) 

 * SPACE (U+0020) 

For all other occurrences of whitespace characters, treatment is in conformance with the provisions of [XML 1.0]. Any additional provisions to those of [XML 1.0] are included in the specifications of the elements where such provisions apply. See, for example, section 5.1.1. 


> Whitespace processing [N 1309]
> ------------------------------
>
>                 Key: OFFICE-2207
>                 URL: http://tools.oasis-open.org/issues/browse/OFFICE-2207
>             Project: OASIS Open Document Format for Office Applications (OpenDocument) TC
>          Issue Type: Bug
>          Components: General
>    Affects Versions: ODF 1.0, ODF 1.0 (second edition)
>            Reporter: Robert Weir 
>            Assignee: Svante Schubert 
>             Fix For: ODF 1.0 Errata CD 5
>
>
> Submitter ID
>     GB-26300-34
> Nature of defect
>     Technical
> Document
>     ISO/IEC 26300:2006
> Clause
>     1.6
> Page
>     34
> Description of issue
> It is stated that "In conformance with the W3C XML specification [XML1.0], optional white-space characters that are contained in elements that have element content (in other words that must contain elements only but not text) are ignored".
>     * It is not clear what "optional white-space characters" are (the term is not defined in XML 1.0), or how the described behaviour conforms to XML 1.0.
>     * Does the phrase "elements that have element content" mean elements that have only element content? This cannot make sense, as whitespace is itself text content.
>     * Consider the markup <text:p><text:span>Hello</text:span> <text:span>world</text:span></text:p>. If processed according to the text above, the space between the words here would be ignored, yet no known ODF processor actually respects this provision.
> Proposal
> Reform the text to answer the above queries and modify the stated processing behaviour to accord with the existing corpus of documents and processors.

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