I want to preserve the white space in my XSL-FO stylesheet.  I am using
linefeed treatment set to preserve, white space set to preserve, and white
space collapse set to false.  It is working fine except for one thing.  When
a line begins with white space it seems to strip it all and start my text
flush left.  If i put one character at the beginning then it will preserve
it fine but I cant do that.  Any ideas?  Thanks.

There is an obscure property described here:
 http://www.w3.org/TR/xsl/slice7.html#suppress-at-line-break
which could cause spaces around line breaks to disappear
despite any other settings. Actually, the spec is a bit fuzzy
with this regard, because the usage of the term "line break"
leaves still room for interpretation. I'd guess setting
suppress-at-line-break="false" on the surrounding block
is a cure for this unwanted phenomenom.