[AppStream] Additional markup support in descriptions

Robert Ancell robert.ancell at canonical.com
Wed Jul 31 20:24:20 UTC 2019


On Mon, Jul 29, 2019 at 8:49 AM Simon McVittie <smcv at collabora.com> wrote:

> On Sun, 28 Jul 2019 at 19:28:34 +0100, Richard Hughes wrote:
> > On Sun, 28 Jul 2019 at 07:47, Robert Ancell <robert.ancell at canonical.com>
> wrote:
> > > I guess that would mean supporting both <code> and <pre>.
> >
> > I think various things would break trying to support <pre> -- a lot of
> > current and legacy tools that import and export AppStream assume that
> > XML whitespace isn't important.
>
> Generic XML tools are meant to respect <pre xml:space="preserve"> if that's
> any help?
>
> I can't find a reference to this, is this in a spec or a convention?
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