Missing space between </q> and <code> even though there exists a space in the .xhtml file

[Nafai]

For example, look at the Components howto and look for this:
<q>smart</q> <code>HairDryer</code>
And then look at the corresponding output

[moshez]

This is a problem in MicroDOMParser: it ignores gotText if it's all space
and the element is not shouldPreserveSpace. Perhaps it would be better
in that case to pretend we got exactly one space:
 def gotText(....)
     if ...:
         ....
     else:
+        self.gotStandAlone(Text, ' ')

[itamarst]

empty space is dropped in order to up performance.

[jknight]

Performance without correctness is not good. This is a bug. XML documents are usually space-
insensitive, but that only means you can translate multiple spaces into one space, not eat them entirely.

[exarkun]

I agree with James.

The branch whitespace-preservation-414 removes a test for the invalid behavior, adds a couple tests for the valid behavior, and changes the parser to collapse multiple spaces into one space, rather than eating them entirely.

[exarkun]

There are some failing tests in lore still which I guess I'll need to fix.

[exarkun]

This is pretty hard. It's not actually a high priority for me now. I hope this ticket can be resolved someday, but it'll probably be a while before I get back to it again.