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Subject: RE: zero width no-break space to prevent tag minimisation
From: "Michael Kay" <mike@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2008 15:20:27 +0100
RE:  zero width no-break space to prevent tag minimisat
> Can anyone see any issues with using a "zero with no-break space" (the
> BOM) as a way of preventing tag minimization:
> 
> <div>&#65279;</div>
> 
> It seems to work - any reason I shouldn't use that? 

The only possible reasons I can think of are the reasons that apply to all
non-ASCII characters - you could hit encoding problems, and you could find
that the character isn't present in all fonts. But go for it if it works.

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/

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