Dear Thomas,
You're right, the HRF seems to inadvertendly insert spaces
when streaming HTML containing block tags such <p> which
have child elements. As you said, this seems to be due to the
formatting which is applied by the HRF. I've opened PDR
6643 for this issue.
Regards,
Till Warweg
[Alaska Software]
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"Thomas Braun" schrieb im Newsbeitrag news:13372b7vbsq2$.1koa3bx1x34gy.dlg@40tude.net...
> Hi,
>
> this is a very old problem - it is present since HRF exists.
>
> I'm not sure if this *can* be fixed at all.
>
> Consider the following HTML markup (test.htm):
>
> <html>
> <body>
> <p>4<sup>th</sup> to 7<sup>th</sup></th> October</p>
> </body>
> </html>
>
>
> Now use the following code to create some HTML output:
>
> FUNCTION HRFTest()
> LOCAL oDoc, cText
>
> oDoc := HTMLDocument():New():LoadFile(".\test.htm")
>
> oDoc:SaveFile(".\test2.htm", 3, CHR(13)+CHR(10))
> oDoc:SaveFile(".\test3.htm", 0, "")
>
> RETURN NIL
>
> This results in the following browser display - pay attention to the spaces
> in the date:
>
> 4th to 7th October (test.htm = correct original)
> 4 th to 7 th October (test2.htm)
> 4thto 7thOctober (test3.htm)
>
> There seems to be no way to preserve the original layout - either there are
> spaces where no spaces should be or spaces that exist in the original file
> are removed.
>
> This is also a problem when creating email markup like this:
>
> <p>Dear <span id="salutation"></span><span id="lastname"></span>,</p>
>
> Which for example results in
>
> Dear Mr. Miller ,
> ^
> (A space before the comma is inserted which does not belong there and looks
> ugly)
>
> Probably the only real way to fix this would be to use where needed.
>
> Thomas
Thomas