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Re: [xml2rfc] assuming that period (.) ends a sentence is sometimes wrong

Nico Williams <nico@cryptonector.com> Mon, 01 March 2021 15:49 UTC

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Subject: Re: [xml2rfc] assuming that period (.) ends a sentence is sometimes wrong
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On Mon, Mar 01, 2021 at 02:55:24PM +0100, Carsten Bormann wrote:
> On 2021-03-01, at 14:35, Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de> wrote:
> > 
> > Also, AFAICT, when M. T. Rose developed this, he used the same
> > processing model as HTML.
> 
> Right, which is fine with me.  My copy of xml2rfcv1 also does sentence
> spacing, pretty much on the model that I described.
> 
> My point is that nothing in XML or existing specifications speaks
> against sentence detection and sentence spacing.  The setting of
> xml:space is completely irrelevant, as the handling of whitespace is
> left to the application in either case.

Thanks for clarifying that for everyone.

> (This does not prejudice whether we want to do sentence spacing in the
> future, of course.)

Agreed.

IMO it would be good to have at least a way to handle the cases where no
extra spacing hurts readability, and to assume they are few and rare.

Nico
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