#544 Whitespace handling in Guidelines examples

[Martin Holmes]

This ticket arises out action on a now-closed Feature Request:

http://sourceforge.net/p/tei/feature-requests/428/

The Nelson and Baxter bibliographical items in this example:

http://teijenkins.hcmc.uvic.ca/job/TEIP5/lastSuccessfulBuild/artifact/release/doc/tei-p5-doc/en/html/CO.html#index-egXML-d49e39468

are purposely encoded with no extraneous whitespace, in accordance with arguments by John McCaskey and others that whitespace in elements such as <bibl> is significant and should not be discarded by a processor. However, the Guidelines rendering code automatically pretty-prints them in indented format, adding whitespace where there shouldn't be any. We should decide whether this is important or not; if it is, then rendering of such elements in examples should be tweaked so that the original whitespace content is exactly preserved.

[Martin Holmes]

From Providence meeting: Action on HC and SR to test the use of @xml:space to solve this specific problem, and to see whether that’s the correct solution in the long term.

[Sebastian Rahtz]

this task got done in Providence, viz supporting @xml:space='preserve' on <exemplum>, which provided the control needed.