SGML lawyer questions

[John Cowan]

Stefan Mintert wrote:

>  > 1) Are these documents valid?
>  > 2) What is the content of the TEXT element in each document?
> 
> Below is the answer from nsgmls. Please note that the files are read from
> STDIN (I used ### to separate end of input from begin of output)

Okay, so far so good.  nsgmls doesn't think that leading blanks are
part of the root element (i.e. the start-tag is inferred only when
non-blank content is seen).  Next question: why is this behavior
the Right Thing?

-- 
John Cowan	http://www.ccil.org/~cowan		cowan at ccil.org
	You tollerday donsk?  N.  You tolkatiff scowegian?  Nn.
	You spigotty anglease?  Nnn.  You phonio saxo?  Nnnn.
		Clear all so!  'Tis a Jute.... (Finnegans Wake 16.5)

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