Preserving white space in elements?

["Bill Kearney" <wkearney99@hotmail.com>]

Hi all,

I recently came across [1] a feed [2] that attempts to use white space for
formatting within it's description element.  This was raised during an unrelated
thread [3].

The only way to do this, according the XML specs, is to add an
xml:space="preserve" attribute to the element.

But, from what I recall, no readers support this attribute.  What should they do
and what behavior should be inferred if they did see that attribute?

Thanks,
Bill Kearney

[1] http://www.syndic8.com/feedinfo.php?FeedID=19823
[2] http://forum.manual-forum.de/rss/3.rdf
[3] http://groups.yahoo.com/group/syndic8/message/2373