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

Carsten Bormann <cabo@tzi.org> Mon, 01 March 2021 10:58 UTC

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Subject: Re: [xml2rfc] assuming that period (.) ends a sentence is sometimes wrong
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On 2021-03-01, at 09:33, Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de> wrote:
> 
>> Double spaces in XML input are copied verbatim into the HTML (where they then are swallowed by the HTML processor), so it is not like the processor is not seeing them.
> 
> But do they survive the preptool step?

Sure.

A quick check shows that https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc8949.xml has about 318 in-line sentence end marks, and 101 end-of-line ones (this may or may not count ones at the end of paragraphs).

> If so, that would IMHO be a bug.

Can’t speak to that.
I don’t think there is a canonical answer to that question in the XML community.
(This has been technical debt for a third of a century.)

Grüße, Carsten

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