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- How should browsers deal with new-lines, and where can html-generators
- put in new-lines?
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- I spent quite a bit of time thinking about what is intuitively the right
- way to do it, and I came up with this method.
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- 0. Convert all new-lines inside of tags to spaces.
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- 1. For each tag NOT in
- <PRE> </PRE> <A> </A> <PLAINTEXT>
- remove ALL surrounding new-lines.
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- 2. For each tag in
- <PRE> <PLAINTEXT>
- remove ALL new-lines to left, and one new-line to the right.
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- 3. For each tag in
- </PRE>
- remove ALL new-lines to the right.
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- 4. Convert all remaining new-lines to spaces.
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- If XMP and LISTING sections are being used, they would be treated the
- same as PRE.
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- Note that this converts new-lines around anchors into spaces UNLESS they
- appear immediately at the beginning or end of some other element.
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- If browsers use this method, it would allow html-generators to put in
- new-lines all over the place for readability of HTML, without introducing
- lots of annoying extra spaces in the output. This is what seems like
- the most useful thing to do, although I'm not sure it is "correct".
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- So is it correct? And are there any obvious flaws?
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- tom
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