Re: [syndication] Preserving white space in elements?

[Ben Hammersley <ben@benhammersley.com>]

How does white-space-preservation work if you cannot be sure as to the 
column width of the rendering client?

On Thursday, November 7, 2002, at 06:27  pm, Bill Kearney wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I recently came across [1] a feed [2] that attempts to use white space 
> for
> formatting within it's description element.  This was raised during an 
> unrelated
> thread [3].
>
> The only way to do this, according the XML specs, is to add an
> xml:space="preserve" attribute to the element.
>
> But, from what I recall, no readers support this attribute.  What 
> should they do
> and what behavior should be inferred if they did see that attribute?
>
> Thanks,
> Bill Kearney
>
> [1] http://www.syndic8.com/feedinfo.php?FeedID=19823
> [2] http://forum.manual-forum.de/rss/3.rdf
> [3] http://groups.yahoo.com/group/syndic8/message/2373
>
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