Preceding or trailing whitespace in p:inline

[xml-project]

In the specs for p:inline we say:

Any preceding or following whitespace-only text nodes will be discarded.

I think the reference (preceding or following what) is ambiguous: Do we mean preceding/following the first none text node or do we mean before and after an element node (analogues to XML)?

[ndw]

I think we meant only leading or trailing whitespace. But I also think this is a mistake. I think that we should say all content in p:inline is significant.

I think we should say that leading and trailing whitespace in an implicit inline is discarded.

So:

<p:with-input>
  <doc> text </doc>
</p:with-input>

creates an input document with a single node, doc containing text. But

<p:with-input>
  <p:inline>
    <doc> text </doc>
  </p:inline>
</p:with-input>

creates a document with three top-level nodes, initial whitespace, a doc element (containing text), and trailing whitespace.

If we strip whitespace out of p:inline, then there's no way to create a document that has leading whitespace.

[xml-project]

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