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I've noticed that topcat and astropy do not agree on how to handle whitespace in a VOTable field description. TOPCAT seems to be correct in that it preserves whitespace, but astropy is outputting a field description as </div>
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<span style="background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);display:inline !important"> <DESCRIPTION></span>
<div style="margin:0px;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255)"> 1-sigma noise level of the spectrum in opacity units. Does not</div>
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which is expecting the whitespace to be collapsed (i.e. <xs:whiteSpace value="collapse"/>). <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Being too used to html I was surprised that the default whitespace
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So, what do people think about changing the <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">VOTable XML schema (and spec) to say the whitespace should be collapsed? If that isn't popular, I'll raise a
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