On Fri, 2021-06-04 at 12:41 +0000, Charles O'Connor
coconnor@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:


>  In tables I fear that some line
> breaks will be junk and others used to get rendering they want, which
> will be near impossible to tease out. 

If you use DTD parsing, you can declare specific elements as being
element-only (by giving a list  of all  permitted element children
without #PCDATA), and then whitespace in such a context may be dropped
by the parser or application (e.g. Saxon) automatically.


Liam

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