[osis-core] whitespace

[Todd Tillinghast]

Troy,

It seems the concept you are wrestling with is how to preserve the white
space, indentation, and line breaks in a text element.  I think the best
answer is to preserve the meaning by replacing the presentation related
information (white space, indentation, and line breaks) with markup.

It also seems that you may be trying to find a balancing point between
manually encoded/edited richly marked up documents and auto-generated
documents from source texts that do not provide all the necessary
information to generate high value markup.

I think in the END the cost will be lower if we retain a high standard
of quality.  

Todd

> -----Original Message-----
> From: osis-core-admin@bibletechnologieswg.org [mailto:osis-core-
> admin@bibletechnologieswg.org] On Behalf Of Troy A. Griffitts
> Sent: Friday, August 08, 2003 2:56 AM
> To: osis-core@bibletechnologieswg.org
> Subject: Re: [osis-core] whitespace
> 
> > Realizing that I probably hold the minority position, ;-), I would
> > recommend normalizing as part of the application (note not the XML
> > parser), all the white space in your example to single spaces.
> 
> no, no; I know of at least one other that might agree with you.
> 
> > Reasoning is that users should be using markup and stylesheets on
markup
> > documents to achieve meaningful presentation. That is not to say
that I
> > don't do the same thing in text files while I am taking notes at
> > meetings, but I don't use it in markup documents I produce for
meeting
> > reports.
> 
> Right, but when initially converting a large document to OSIS, what is
> the "OSIS entry cost"?
> 
> How do you handle stuff like double-space between sentences?   
> isn't an XML escape is it?
> 
> 
> How about:
> 
> this is an example
> 
> (I was going to write an example, but decided my own email is a great
> example.  I wanted a return after 'How about:'
> 
> I think there are many ways people use returns and other whitespace in
> writing and I'm hesitant to say that it is acceptable to strip all
> whitespace throughout the entire document.
> 
> >
> >
> >> (I DON'T WANT RECOMMENDATION ON HOW THIS _SHOULD_ BE MARKED UP)
> >>
> >
> > My, my, has someone been offering unsolicited markup advice? :-)
> 
> No, no!  Just wanted to keep us on track with the question at hand.  I
> could probably guess the appropriate way to encode the excerpt and
> didn't want us to started talking about that.
> 
> 
> >
> > Hope you are having a great day!
> 
> Yeah, what are you doing up at 1:55am?  Probably traveling again.
> 
> 	-Troy.
> 
> 
> >
> > Patrick
> >
> >> I'm looking for input on how to handle whitespace.
> >>
> >>     Thanks for your time.
> >>
> >>         -Troy.
> >>
> >>
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