> I found IE _is_ preserving the whitespace while with indent="no" the
> whitespace gets striped.

Are you sure that isn't just an artefact of the white space being
_added_ by indentation, rather than white space being preserved.

You can in fact turn off the stripping, even in IE via the xsl-stylesheet
PI where you don't have programmatic access to the parser, if you are
prepared to put xml:space="preserve" into the source document (eg on the
document element).

David