[Libreoffice-bugs] [Bug 113726] Trailing space in cell text not encoded as <text:s/>

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https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=113726

Andrew Church <achurch+dfo at achurch.org> changed:

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             Status|RESOLVED                    |REOPENED

--- Comment #5 from Andrew Church <achurch+dfo at achurch.org> ---
> The description of <text:s> has, "This element shall be used to represent the second and all following “ “ (U+0020, SPACE) characters in a sequence of “ “ (U+0020, SPACE) characters.

As an initial issue, "shall be used to represent the second" does not imply
"shall not be used to represent the first", so I don't think this is enough to
resolve the question.

Looking at the ODF 1.3 specification
(https://www.oasis-open.org/committees/download.php/67566/OpenDocument-v1.3-part3-schema.odt):

"""
6.1.2. White Space Characters

Consumers shall collapse white space that occur in
 * a <text:p> or <text:h> element [...]

Collapsing white space characters is defined by the following algorithm:
[...]
5) Leading " " (U+0020, SPACE) characters at the start of the resulting text
[...] are removed.
"""

I hope I haven't omitted any relevant points by accident, but by my reading of
this algorithm, "<text:p> space</text:p>" should have the initial space removed
and be parsed as the text "space" (5 characters), suggesting that Excel has the
right of it and <text:s/> is required to correctly encode the leading space.

Apologies for not doing the legwork on this in the first place, but reopening.

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