Is it “bad practice” to be sensitive to linebreaks in XML documents?
I'm generating some XML documents and when it comes to the address part I have fragments that look like this: <Address>15 Sample St Example Bay Some Country</Address> The XSLT that I have for converting this to XHTML has some funky recursive template to convert newline characters within strings to <br/> tags. This is all working fine; but is it considered "bad practice" to rely on linebreaks within XML documents? If so, is it recommended that I do this instead? <Address><Line>15 Sample St</Line> <Line>Example Bay</Line> <Line>Some Country</Line></Address> Seems like it'd be really awkward to