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List:       koffice-devel
Subject:    Re: [PATCH] two kotext fixes for 1.6
From:       Thomas Zander <zander () kde ! org>
Date:       2006-09-05 7:19:25
Message-ID: 200609050919.30084.zander () kde ! org
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On Monday 4 September 2006 23:44, Benjamin K. Stuhl wrote:
> On Mon, September 4, 2006 03:55, Thomas Zander wrote:
> > On Sunday 23 July 2006 01:46, Benjamin wrote:
> >> Ok, I've hacked on this a bit, and have come to the conclusion that
> >> either (a) the ODF spec's definition of what to do about leading and
> >> trailing whitespace is horribly underdefined  (since it ends up
> >> pointing back to HTML4, which just throws up it's hands and says
> >> "don't count on any specific behavior") or (b) OpenOffice is broken
> >> in its handling of such things (OO.o strips leading whitespace from
> >> toplevel elements, but not sub-elements, it seems).
> >>
> >> If there is someone who is more of an authority of ODF who would
> >> like to tell me what the _correct_ behavior is, I'd be happy to try
> >> to implement it.
> >
> > ok, sorry for delay but I got an authoritative answer and you are
> > right. <text:p>
> >         One space before this paragraph.
> >    </text:p>
> > The leading space is not suppost to be stripped, which OOo does
> > wrong.
> > http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/office/200609/msg00003.html
>
> What about Michael Brauer's response?
> (http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/office/200609/msg00011.html)
>
> It doesn't look like the issue is settled yet?

Michael is working for Sun, I expect him to defend what OOo does, daniel 
vogelheim on the other hand is someone I have a lot of confidence in with 
his long background in xml and IIRC as a w3c member.
So I'll go with his opinion.

> > I'll update the ODF testsuite.
> >
> > Benjamin, would you be able to look at the 1.6 code and make sure
> > leading spaces are not stripped?  I'm guessing you can do it in a
> > less time then it would take me ;)
>
> Sure, I can, if you think things are settled.

Well, we can wait a little, but I doubt things will change. And we just 
entered the feature freeze so I'd like to have this in asap.
Would be great, thanks! :-)
-- 
Thomas Zander

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