[oXygen-user] whitespace normalization

Sat Feb 18 16:11:23 CST 2012

Apologies if this is a FAQ -- I'm in mid-workshop. 

I *think* oXygen already does what I want, but I can't seem to figure
out how to get it to. I want whitespace to be normalized in <l>, <p>,
and <head> elements when I choose format-and-indent.

In the Preferences "Editor / Format / XML" pane, in the "Element
Spacing" section, I've added 
  //l
  //p
  //head
to the "Default space" tab, and made sure they are not listed in the
"Preserve space" tab. But either with or without an <?xml-stylesheet?>
PI to a CSS file, and whether or not "Schema aware format and indent"
is checked, oXygen never strips off my leading or trailing whitespace.

Any thoughts?

Oh ... it just occured to me: I've scanned the help pages, and the
decision about whether to normalize space or not seems to be based
more on CSS than on those preferences; could the default oXygen CSS
stylesheet (for TEI, of course :-) by messing me up, here?