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

Carsten Bormann <cabo@tzi.org> Mon, 01 March 2021 11:59 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 12:34, Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de> wrote:
> 
> I'm not aware of any existing XML where whitespace
> inside <t> was considered significant, nor did any of the
> implementations treat it this way.

Idon’tthinkthattreatingwhitespaceasinsignificantisagreatidea.

So what exactly *do* you mean?

Grüße, Carsten