Re: [xml] HTML parser whitespace bug

[Rachael Churchill <rachael churchill linguamatics com>]

Do you need to set the ignorableWhitespace handler?
We have ours set to the same function as we use for the characters 
handler, and it correctly processes whitespace in <pre> tags.

Rachael

Michael Day wrote:
> Hi,
>
> The HTML parser incorrectly throws away whitespace inside <pre> 
> elements, so that the following input:
>
> <pre>x<br/>   <span>try</span></pre>
>
> is collapsed to this:
>
> <pre>x<br/><span>try</span></pre>
>
> This can be verified with xmllint --html. Similar problems have been 
> observed in the past with whitespace between adjacent <img> elements, 
> which can also result in incorrect output.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Michael