Amaya 10 -- snapsohot 4 -- whitespace being interpreted

in some cases line returns change the rendering of elements
even when they should not ... the following example shows 
differences in spacing of the tabs for a menu.   this is caused
when formfeeds are/are not  placed before end of element tag!
// demo file follows

<?xml version="1.1" encoding="iso-8859-1"?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.1//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml11/DTD/xhtml11.dtd">
<html xml:lang="en" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head><title>Cryptology Terminology</title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"/>
<style type="text/css">
body {background:#fdf5e6;color:#000;text-align:center;
  margin:0px;border:0px;padding:0px}
div {margin:0px;border:0px;padding:0px}
#main {background:#fefefe;width:710px;height:450px;text-align:left;
  margin:auto;padding:0px 25px 5px}
.dmenu {margin-left:13%;clear:both} /* adjust to position menubar */
#dmenu, #dmenu ul {margin:0px;padding:0px;list-style:none}
#dmenu a, #dmenu a:visited {color:#000;display:block;width:100px;
  background:#ffdead;height:20px;line-height:19px;
  text-decoration:none;text-indent:5px;font-size:12px;
  border:1px solid #000;border-width:0 1px 1px 1px}
#dmenu a:hover {text-decoration:none;background:#ff8080;color:#707070}
#dmenu li {float:left;position:relative;padding:0px}
#dmenu li:hover > a{background:#ff8080;color:#707070}
#dmenu li ul {display:none}
#dmenu li:hover > ul {display:block;position:absolute;top:0;left:100px}
#dmenu > li:hover > ul {left:0;top:21px}
</style></head>
<body><div id="main">
<div class="dmenu"><ul id="dmenu">
<li><a href="cyhome.htm">Cryptology</a>
</li>
<li><a href="cypeople.htm">People</a>
</li>
<li><a href="cyprogs.htm">Programs</a></li>
<li><a href="cyterms.htm">References</a></li>
<li><a href="http://home.cogeco.ca/~ve3ll/">JR's Home</a></li>
</ul><br class="dmenu"/></div>

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John Russell, VE3LL@COGECO.CA
http://home.cogeco.ca/~ve3ll
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Received on Friday, 29 August 2008 15:56:29 UTC