Looking at the source in SVGTextElementBridge.java, it would appear that
additional leading whitespace would not be properly stripped when there are
multiple child text nodes containing only whitespace (I believe this may be
due to the first boolean variable being outside the loop iterating the
Is there any easy way to build Batik without of the scripting infrastructure
(for use in server-side applications). We manually stripped out all of the
scripting code, but that is obviously not a desirable approach long term.
Rick Bullotta
CTO
Lighthammer Software (http://www.lighthammer.com)
