[tei-council] documenting xml:space

[Martin Holmes]

On 12-10-24 04:44 AM, James Cummings wrote:
> 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 see no harm in gently recommending it, but I'd be reluctant to make it 
any stronger than that.

>> 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.

If you're able to clean up the prose now, I'd have a go at it, and avoid 
the second new ticket.

Cheers,
Martin

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Martin Holmes
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