[OASIS Issue Tracker] Created: (OFFICE-2207) Whitespace processing

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Whitespace processing
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                 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
    Affects Versions: ODF 1.0, ODF 1.0 (second edition)
            Reporter: Robert Weir 
             Fix For: ODF 1.0 Errata 03


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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