> Problem is, it may conflict with the document's DTD (this applies 
> for instance for RFC2629's DTD).


there's always

<!DOCTYPE foo SYSTEM "whatever" [
<!ATTLIST foo xml:space #IMPLIED>
]>
<foo xml:space="preserve">
....

Not that the other browsers (apart frm IE) fetch the DTD anyway.

David

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