Can you say why you want always to have the whitespace?  If for HTML 
reasons, then you should be able to rely on the html output method to do 
the right thing.

Otherwise, in line with a few other things in the last few days, you 
probably need to postprocess with

  perl -p -e's/\/>/ \/>/g'

or something like that.

 Steve


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