413634 - SVG xml:space="preserve" not working

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 319786

(Core :: SVG, defect)

Description

[Jochen Roemmler]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686 (x86_64); en-US; rv:1.8.1.10) Gecko/20071115 Firefox/2.0.0.10
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686 (x86_64); en-US; rv:1.8.1.11) Gecko/20071127 Firefox/2.0.0.11

I have a SVG authoring application which needs to write SVG <text> data containing *significant* white spaces. As per SVG spec [1] a compliant SVG renderer is required to not "eat" them up if I use xml:space='preserve' on that <text> element.

[1] http://www.w3.org/TR/SVG11/text.html#WhiteSpace

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
Open & display attached SVG file "whitespace.svg".
Actual Results:  
"10 spaces apart!"

Expected Results:  
"          10          spaces          apart!"

Are there any known work-arounds my application could use (possibly masking all significant white-space characters)?
I feel like this bug could have something to do with bug id 314014
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=314014

Comment 1

[Jochen Roemmler]

Attachment: whitespace.svg - example using xml:space="preserve"

Comment 3

[Jochen Roemmler]

(In reply to comment #2)
> 
> *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 319786 ***
> 
Robert,
sorry, I wasn't able to find the duplicate [319786].
Can you tell me which Firefox version includes the fix?
I'm using the latest "official" Firefox release (no snapshot version) and it still fails... (or am I missing something here?)

Jochen

Comment 4

[Robert Longson [:longsonr]]

This is explained in bug 319786 comment 41 Download a firefox 3 beta or nightly to see it working.