[tei-council] is <eg> special as regards whitespace?

[Kevin Hawkins]

I'm with Martin and James that <tei:eg> is not currently defined in a 
way that implies that it behaves like <html:pre>, so you should not do 
@xml:space='preserve' in your stylesheets.  If anyone was assuming 
behavior like <html:pre> up to now, they should be able to insert 
@xml:space='preserve' in their data globally to fix the problem.  --K.

On 1/29/13 12:20 PM, James Cummings wrote:
>
> I'm of the opinion that <eg> is not special as regards
> whitespace. If its definition is to be revised then there could
> be an argument for extending its content model.
>
> i.e. now it allows only character data... which is very much
> *not* the model of 'illustrative example' that I think most
> people would understand. It makes sense only as its roots in ODD
> not is any provision for wider use.
>
> -James
>
>
> On 29/01/13 17:14, Sebastian Rahtz wrote:
>> One of the effects of implementing those white space rules in my XSL is that
>> the contents of <eg> are now treated like any other element, i.e.
>> newlines are replace by space etc. This means it is no longer equivalent
>> to <pre> in HTML.
>>
>> So tell me, o wolves, what does the encoding
>>
>>      <eg>
>>      the cat
>>      sat on the mat
>>    <./eg>
>>
>> mean?
>>
>> since the reference page has nothing to say on the matter, I suggest that  i currently
>> have no justification to make <eg> always behave as if it had  xml:space="preserve"
>>
>> so tell me, is <eg> to be a hard-wired exception? if so, we must
>> document it, lest the Wrath of McCaskey descend upon us.
>>
>> (and please, if anyone says, "won't using CDATA [[]] help",
>> I shall probably have to eat a stuffed monkey again)
>> --
>> Sebastian Rahtz
>> Director (Research Support) of Academic IT Services
>> University of Oxford IT Services
>> 13 Banbury Road, Oxford OX2 6NN. Phone +44 1865 283431
>>
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