<html><body> <tt>I think the RDF situation is very different than the microformats with regards to the whitespace problem.</tt> <tt>With microformats, you are adding the microformat classes to existing content, so you are</tt> <tt>probably putting them around a lot of various whitespace (carriage returns, line feed, etc.)</tt> <tt>With RDF, things are done a little more granular.</tt> <tt>I think parsers should definitely remove the whitespace because what we are making available should equate to the</tt> <tt>HTML content and the HTML content has whitespace collapsed and removed.</tt></body></html>