Chapter 8. Whitespace issues
Spaces and line-end codes are sometimes important characters in the document, and at other times are used simply to lay out XML tags. Within the document, a consecutive series of whitespace characters may be significant, or unimportant and expected to be reduced to a single space. This chapter describes an XML mechanism for preserving all space, explains how related standards cope with identifying significant document spaces, and concludes with suggestions for default handling of ambiguous spaces in XML documents.
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