[tei-council] xml:space
James Cummings
James.Cummings at oucs.ox.ac.uk
Mon Feb 8 13:35:24 EST 2010
Martin Holmes wrote:
> <graphic url="stuff.jpg" xml:space="preserve"/>
> then (probably) more fool me.
> [Cue someone with a compelling use-case for @xml:space on <graphic/>.]
I've just spent the last few minutes trying to come up with some,
but every time I do I think to myself 'that is really a <figure>
not a <graphic/>' or thing 'no, that is @xml:space on the element
containing <graphic/>' ... I give up.
I don't see that this is any more nonsensical than: <graphic
url="image.jpg" xml:lang="fr"/> ... the @xml:lang does not apply
to the thing the element points at (by its definition), but the
content of the element itself, which is non-existent.
I sometimes think that I should write a blog post entitled:
"Global Attributes Considered Harmful", because it annoys the
heck out of me every time I notice a global attribute on some
element (usually in the header) which doesn't make sense with the
semantics of that element. In most cases it is because to my mind
the attribute in question should be global-underneath-text rather
than truly global.
-James
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