>> Again, treat that portion that requires special
>> space handling as a subflow.
>
> I think it would be wrong to break apart a sentence
> because of a stylistic change. If we do that for xml:space
> why don't we do it for a span of italics inside a non-italics
> content? While the presence of a change in how spaces
> should be handled *may* indicate a true sub-flow, there is
> no way to be sure of it just by that.
Actually let me take this back. It's a bad comparison as preserving or not spaces is not a stylistic change: it affects the process of the text not just its rendering.
But I'm still not sure it is not enough information to justify a sub-flow.
Cheers,
-ys