[sword-devel] RE: [spam] RE: OSIS 2.0.1 modules updated

Michael Paul Johnson sword-devel@crosswire.org
Sat, 20 Mar 2004 16:22:32 +1000


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At 02:40 20-03-04, Todd Tillinghast wrote:
>Michael,
>
><snip>
>
>> 1. I want all quotation punctuation to be included verbatim in the
>> text, not markup, of the OSIS document. I don't want any 
>> punctuation,
>> including quotation marks, to be handled as a rendering issue.
>> 
>
>In an XML document everything is markup.  Are you making a 
>distinction
>between text markup as an attribute of an element and text marked up 
>as
>the PCDATA child of an element?

I am making a distinction between something that is unambiguously 
encoded and something that is implied by the markup in such a way that 
it may or may not be rendered correctly.

>I am fairly sure that you would make a distinction between a text 
>marked
>up by an element that represents a character (a <space/> element 
>rather
>than simply a space character).  I am not sure why this would
>troublesome as long as the two are defined to equivalent.  Can you
>explain?

In the case of your handling of quotation marks, the two are NOT 
equivalent. THAT is the problem.

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