Re: [xml2rfc-dev] [Ext] Re: [Rfc-markdown] [xml2rfc] <br> is back, was: New xml2rfc release: v2.32.0

Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de> Tue, 05 November 2019 19:30 UTC

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From: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
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On 05.11.2019 19:55, Heather Flanagan wrote:
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>
> Matching what you see aside, do you have any concerns with my requirements?
>
> Heather

Yes, of course.

"Ignoring" the <br> is the wrong thing; you would need to treat is just
like a regular whitespace character. So

   "A<br/>B"

when referenced would be treated just like "A B".

I also recommend to read the HTML5 spec with respect to when <br> is
valid in HTML; we wouldn't want to create invalid HTML, right?

"br elements must not be used for separating thematic groups in a
paragraph." --
<https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/text-level-semantics.html#the-br-element>

Best regards, Julian