<pre> blocks in Atom CDATA have whitespace trimmed

[coar]

I've found that leading whitespace in <pre> blocks in my blog is trimmed when it appears in the Atom feed.

Compare

 http://ken.coar.org/burrow/just-relax-ng-in-the-heat

with

 http://ken.coar.org/burrow/atom/just-relax-ng-in-the-heat

[gsnedders]

I disagree this is trivial: it causes data-corruption (insofar as the semantics are totally changed, and in way that is quite visible), and hence cannot be a minor issue.

[anon]

the second url is reachable?

[michaeltwofish]

I think the second URL should be  http://ken.coar.org/burrow/just-relax-ng-in-the-heat/atom.

The whitespace between <pre> and <drill> appear to be identical, a carriage return and two spaces. In the atom entry the <pre> element is entity encoded, so if whatever you're reading it in doesn't decode it and displays it as HTML, the whitespace will collapse.

[michaeltwofish]

As per my previous comment, Habari appears to be behaving correctly here.