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Re: [docbook-apps] Re: xml/groff: comments in text=>whitespacestripped?!
> * In message <20030606142741.GA24261@redhat.com>
> * On the subject of "Re: [docbook-apps] Re: xml/groff: comments in text=>whitespace stripped?!"
> * Sent on Fri, 6 Jun 2003 15:27:41 +0100
> * Honorable Tim Waugh <twaugh@redhat.com> writes:
>
> On Fri, Jun 06, 2003 at 09:56:17AM -0400, Sam Steingold wrote:
>
> > I would argue that this is incorrect.
> > Since newline is syntactically significant in groff,
> > arbitrarily removing it is a bug.
>
> But then the following would have all spaces preserved:
>
> <para>Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.
> Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem
> ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum
> dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor
> sit amet.</para>
>
> And that would create:
>
> Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.
> Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem
> ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum
> dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor
> sit amet.
>
> rather than:
>
> Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.
> Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem
> ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum
> dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor
> sit amet.
>
> which is actually what you want.
good point.
1. you can either remove just the leading spaces (but not NLs), or
2. do the space normalization __before__ the lower-level processing,
i.e., _first_ normalize-space on the raw XML text, and only _then_
call apply-templates.
PS. "Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet" sounds Latin (and is Greek to me).
What does it mean?
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