 |
 |
I'm encoding some items and need to know how they will display in a browser. I can't use Page Preview right now, so I'm unable to find this out myself. My question involves the use of a comma and a space at the end of one element and right before another. The "Application Guidelines" (section 4.3.5.1) advise always including a single space after an inline element, since a style sheet cannot always be counted on to supply whitespace where needed. In my case, the encoded elements are a comic strip title, followed by the name of its creator. The tags are <title>, rendered in quotes, within a <unittitle>, followed by a name tagged as <origination>. My uncertainty has to do with how the single space and the quotation marks will sort themselves out. The coding looks like this: <c> <unittitle><title render="quoted">Happy Hooligan at Work Again. He Is Employed as a Guard at the Penitentiary, </title></unittitle> <origination>Opper, Frederick Burr.</origination> </c> I have included a single space after the comma. The desired result is: "Happy Hooligan at Work Again. He Is Employed as a Guard at the Penitentiary," Opper, Frederick Burr. But I wonder if I might instead end up with the single space in the wrong place: "Happy Hooligan at Work Again. He Is Employed as a Guard at the Penitentiary, "Opper, Frederick Burr. Does anyone know how elements rendered in quotes behave in this instance? If the answer to this is not known, would someone be kind enough to try this out in their own copy of XMetaL and tell me the results? With thanks in advance, Amy McCrory Cartoon Research Library Ohio State University (614) 292-0538