Kevin Flynn wrote: > Cut the following text: > > This word is<emph> emphasized</emph>. > > and paste it in again, and you get: > > This word is<emph>emphasized</emph>. > > In other words, leading (and presumably trailing) white space is dropped > from text nodes when they are copied. > > Is this new behavior, or it is just the first time I have noticed it? In > general when writing, I'm careful to always enter > > This word is <emph>emphasized</emph>.
It has always worked like this. > so it may just have passed me by. However, there are certain analogous > situations in my documents (involving other elements, not <emph>) where > leading/trailing spaces are necessary. > > Is it possible to do anything to prevent the white space being dropped? No, white space is always trimmed (unless an xml:space="preserve" is found in the ``context of the Paste'').
