[uf-dev] whitespace handling

[Ryan King]

Some properties in microformats are defined to have whitespace  
preserved, others are not. For the ones that are not, its not  
entirely clear how whitespace should be handled. Brian Suda and I  
have discussed this a bit this afternoon [http://rbach.priv.at/ 
Microformats-IRC/2006-06-15#T000449], but haven't come to any  
conclusions.

Here's my questions:

1. Should empty text nodes be ignored?
2. Or should those text nodes be collapsed into a single space?
3. Should values be trimmed (ie, whitespace removed from beginning  
and end)?

I'm sure there'll be more questions, too. I ask now, because our  
hCard tests [http://microformats.org/tests/hcard/] reflect the  
answers [no, no, yes] to the questions above. If we decide on another  
approach, I'd like to change the tests sooner rather than later.

thanks,
ryan
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Ryan King
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