On Monday, Aug 4, 2003, at 06:13 America/Denver, Tim Allen wrote: > Is there any reason why white-space preserving should not always be on? I concur with you -- it should always be on. Of note, so does the XML spec, section 2.10: http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml#sec-white-space Hope that helps. ;) Diz