Requests that, when printing or displaying the associated element, all white space, such as tabs, ordinary spaces, and line breaks be preserved
Used to keep explicit formatting, for example, in computer code, ASCII art, or poetry. In this Tag Set, the “xml:space” attribute is used with the Preformatted Text element, with its value fixed to “preserve”.
| Value | Meaning |
|---|---|
| preserve | White space should be preserved. (This value is fixed and cannot be changed in a document.) |
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