Hi Makita-san,
You are right, in most cases the DITA-OT is good about suppressing
leading/trailing spaces!
We use Oxygen’s PDF Chemistry for publishing, and I noticed the following:
* In TOC, trailing whitespace pushed the dot leader (dotted line) rightward.
* In figure titles, leading spaces pushed the title rightward.
* In table cells, leading spaces pushed the content rightward.
Sometimes <indexterm> elements would complicate the issue:
<entry><indexterm …/> Here is some text.</entry>
Plus, the presence of leading/trailing spaces bothered me from a correctness
perspective. 😊
I developed the trimming refactoring operation for all of these reasons. (The
updates to ignore <indexterm> elements in the sibling searches are not shown in
the code samples I shared on this list, but I’m happy to share the completed
operation if you are interested.)
* Chris
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