Murray made the suggestion:
> .....
> 
> 	Whitespace (spaces and tabs) between tags and data characters
> 	should be discarded and and multiple spaces collapsed 
> 	into a single space during this process.
If the above were applied, what would happen with things like:
        data <tag> data <tag>....
Would this be compressed to data<tag>data...., and completely
remove the whitespace separating the text data?
Ian