47483 - Soft hyphen character does not render in XML

Status: VERIFIED INVALID

(Core :: XML, defect, P3)

Description

[Christine Hoffman]

Using the following builds:

Win: 08_03_5 M17
Mac: 08_03_04 M17
Linux: 08_03_04 M17

Open the attached testcase. Soft hyphen character does not render using decimal 
or hexidecimal values.

Comment 1

[Christine Hoffman]

Attachment: testcase to demonstrate problem

Comment 2

[Nisheeth Ranjan]

This bug has been marked "future" because the original netscape engineer working
on this is over-burdened. If you feel this is an error, that you or another
known resource will be working on this bug,or if it blocks your work in some way
-- please attach your concern to the bug for reconsideration.

Comment 3

[Tobias Burnus]

I thought ­ should be ignored unless there beginns a new line. (therefore
the name "soft hyphen").

The bug might be, that there is no hyphen on hyphenation; but there shouldn't be
one if there is none.

Suggest:
a) Mark as resolved, invalid
b) Mark as duplicate of bug 31304 (­ doesn't render), which is HTML
(You need to check first, whether this applys, I don't exactly know XML and
linebreaking in Mozilla)
c) Change the bug to a XML equivalent of (b)

The bug uses:
  = BO-BREAK SPACE (00A0)
­ = SOFT HYPHEN (00AD) = 173
­ = SOFT HYPHEN (00AD) = 173

Comment 4

[Mats Palmgren (inactive)]

I agree with Tobias, ­ should only be displayed when preceding a line-break.
See bug 9101. Resolving as INVALID.

Comment 5

[Christine Hoffman]

verified invalid