Creating HTML document question

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Simon--er, no...it was Bill Campbell--said:
> 
> Because HTML, like xml, pretty much ignores multiple spaces
> unless one is in a <pre>...</pre> block.

That's not actually true, though.  The data -inside- an XML element is
taken literally.  Whitespace outside the elements is basically ignored,
except newlines are preserved--even if not rendered by anything (ie., a
browser).

In HTML, whitespace outside tags is ignored unless it's a newline, which
would be preserved.  Whitespace inside an element is preserved, but the
-rendering- specs say that it condenses in the form "s/\s+/ /g"
(shorthand...Bill will know what I mean).

In either event, the whitespace is actually preserved.  There just aren't
rendering specs for XML data unless you get into XSLT or the like.  But the
data -is- sacrosanct.  I've put in lots of whitespace in plain XML and it
comes back faithfully in both IE and Firefox's default XML stylesheets.  It
uses proportional fonts, but it's preserved.

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