[alicebot-archcomm] Whitespace clarification

[Kim Sullivan]

> I'm not completely sure I understand the issue here, but it defies common
> sens to parse all CDATA.

If it is properly marked in a <![CDATA[ section, there's no reason to parse
it, otherwise you have to (unless xml:space="preserve" is used).

> Sometimes "unmarked" text contains multiple
> white spaces on purpose.

&nbsp;

> Properly formatted English paragraphs are
> supposed to have two whitespaces at the end of every sentence.

Not sure about this, wasn't this the norm when using old typewriters and a
monospaced font? Today, in the age of variable width fonts and "block"
alignment, two "whitespaces" loose meaning (unless someone decises to
separeate sentences by two line breaks), about the same as when you "write"
two spaces by hand. MHO.

> If
> wrapping this plain text paragraph in a <template> (or for that matter a
> <p>) tag is going to compress sentence-ending dual-whitespaces into single
> ones, it sort of defeats the purpose of text "markup" IMHO.

You could mark sentences with some kind of <sentence>. Whitespace is only
about appearance, that's why <p> is used for paragraphs.

Kim