I think this is an example of a more fundamental question:
Do Structure elements carry some textual information, even when they don't contain any text?
For a the answer seems YES. But are there other examples?
Empty Paragraphs? Empty Sentences? I don't know.
This indeed seems the fundamental question which we hadn't considered earlier. The only three I can think of that fit this are <cell> and perhaps <row> and maybe even <item>. We would need an additional mechanism to accommodate this in the libraries.
kosloot
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3 years ago
This indeed seems the fundamental question which we hadn't considered earlier. The only three I can think of that fit this are
<cell>and perhaps<row>and maybe even<item>. We would need an additional mechanism to accommodate this in the libraries.Originally posted by @proycon in https://github.com/proycon/foliatools/issues/41#issuecomment-900171713