JSP Document/JSPX: what determines how tabs/space/linebreaks are removed in the output?

Question

I\'ve got a \"JSP Document\" (\"JSP in XML\") nicely formatted and when the webpage is generated and sent to the user, some linebreaks are removed.

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Answer 1

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Whitespace inside is stripped if you use the above directive in your web.xml. Given the semantic model quoted in BalusC's answer, this directive is only useful if you're not using XML syntax.

(Tomcat 6.0.16; Servlet 2.5 declarations; JSP 2.1 declarations in XML syntax)