Revision 1 as of 2005-11-07 20:34:54 converted to 1.6 markup |No
differences found!| WhiteSpace Handling in the XSL FO spec Some
thoughts about the concerns The FO spec must address the
following three concerns: - What to do with linefeed characters
in the input: consider as space or as a real linefeed? - What to
do with XML white space characters other than linefeed in the
input: preserve or collapse? These two concerns are governed by
the properties linefeed-treatment and white-space-collapse.
Together these two items address the matter of pretty printing
of XML documents (in this case FO documents). - What to do with
white space and other eligible characters around line breaks?
This concern is governed by the properties white-space-treatment
and suppress-at-linebreak. XML itself has a prescription for
dealing with white space in the input XML file: The parser must
report whether white space occurs in element content or not,
allowing applications to ignore it in element content; in SAX
terms, white space in