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1227	Problem with spaceless	Simon Willison	Adrian Holovaty	"The new spaceless tag introduced in [1968] is over-zealous. Consider the following example ([http://www.metafilter.com/mefi/48251 taken from metafilter], where it is a common idiom):

{{{
<a href=""http://www.carm.org/questions/rock.htm"">Can God</a> <a href=""http://www.str.org/site/News2?page=NewsArticle&id=5160"">make a rock</a> <a href=""http://www.godandscience.org/apologetics/rock.html"">so heavy</a> <a href=""http://www.simpsoncrazy.com/information/scripts/dabf11.shtml"">that he</a> <a href=""http://geocities.com/cangodmakearock"">could not</a> <a href=""http://www.askmoses.com/qa_detail.html?h=419&o=237"">lift it?</a>
}}}

The spaceless tag would remove the spaces between these links entirely, causing them to look like this:

CanGodmakearocksoheavythathecouldnotliftit?

The solution is to replace multiple whitespace with a single space rather than removing them entirely. A more complex solution would be to remove ALL whitespace between block-level tags but leave space beteween inline tags, but the complexity and performance overhead of doing this probably prohibits it."	defect	closed	Template system		normal	fixed			Unreviewed	0	0	0	0	0	0