[tei-council] documenting xml:space

[James Cummings]

On 24/10/12 03:36, Rebecca Welzenbach wrote:
> Here I think he means <encodingDesc>. This warrants discussion and perhaps
> its own ticket: do we want to expand <normalization> to include how the
> encoder expects a processor to handle whitespace? In addition, although it
> is not mentioned in the ticket, in his wiki page, John suggests that even
> in cases where no modification to whitespace normalization is expected,
> encoders should state this explicitly, rather than letting it be implied by
> omission. Do we agree?

That seems reasonable to me.

> I propose:
>     - Close this ticket. The things that John is asking for have been, or
>     are being, addressed elsewhere. John asks for these recommendations to be
>     added to the attribute spec, but I propose that we stick with handling them
>     in the prose.
>     - Pending council feedback, open a new ticket to address the question of
>     documenting assumptions about whitespace normalization in the header
>     - Open a new ticket to revise/edit for clarity the prose dealing with
>     whitespace at 1.3.1.1.4. The prose as it stands is not wrong: it is
>     consistent with what John asks for in this ticket, and covers the same
>     ground, but it could be clearer and easier to read.

I'd agree with that.

-James

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