Re: Bug in nxml-mode (indentation)?

[Lennart Borgman (gmail)]

Jason Rumney wrote:
> Eric Lilja wrote:
> > But how should a file be indented for this XPath-thing to do its work
> > correctly? Not at all or depending on other parameters?
>
> The text enclosed within an element should not be indented at all,
> unless the user explicitly says so, or the user is using some
> specialization of nxml-mode, such as xhtml-mode, where it is known that
> the application will normalize whitespace.

(I guess you mean nxhtml-mode which is derived from nxml-mode.)

But just to be sure: Are you saying that in XHTML files the whitespace 
extent in the text parts (that part that is shown in a web browser) is 
significant (even though the web browser does not care much about it)?

If so, what should a confused editor do?