104785 - whitespaces are not removed prior to creation of DOM tree.

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 26179

(Core :: DOM: Core & HTML, defect)

Description

[Alexey Chernyak]

OS: Win2K
Build: 0.9.5 (2001101117)

Whitespaces around and inside block element tags are inserted into DOM tree as
Text objects instead of being removed.

This produces the following problems:

1. Big waste of resources to accomodate a lot of extra Text objects.
2. DOM navigation by means of firstNode, lastNode and childNodes[] becomes
problematic.
3. Mozilla is not conforming to the rules of XHTML whitespace handling specified at:
http://www.w3.org/TR/2001/WD-xhtml1-20011004/#uaconf
which state:
    * All whitespace surrounding block elements should be removed.
    * When the ' xml:space ' attribute is not set to ' preserve ', then:
        * Leading and trailing white space inside a block element must be removed.

The testcase attached below demonstrates the problem:

Comment 1

[Alexey Chernyak]

Attachment: testcase

Comment 2

[Fabian Guisset]

Dup of bug 26179? (note that we probably don't plan on changing this behavior)

Comment 3

[Johnny Stenback (:jst)]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 26179 ***

Comment 4

[Sivakiran Tummala]

verified dup