Jeni's Musings

From the few samples that I have lying around it seems that word2007 still puts everything on one line (in the zipped file) but does now move the xml:space attributes just on to the text run elements, not on the document element. It’s not that surprising that MS generated XML puts xml:space everywhere even in places where a reading of the XML spec would suggest that it isn’t needed, as their XML parsers have a well known “feature” that they strip white space by default, whatever the XML spec says about preserving it.

Perhaps It’ll make you scream but I tend to stick xml:space=”preserve” on the top level html element of xhtml files, to give IE a slight hint that inter word spaces perhaps ought to be rendered as spaces rather than being helpfully optimised away…

David