DOM loses whitespace

Can I tell the DOM routines to consider whitespace significant? Here's a short script to demonstrate what I'm observing: $xmlstr = "<?xml version='1.0'?> <root xml:space="preserve"> a<x> </x> b <x> </x>c </root> "; $dom = xmldoc($xmlstr); echo $dom->dumpmem (); The script produces this output: <?xml version="1.0"?> <root> a<x/> b <x/>c </root> Note how the whitespace between <x> and </x> is lost. It appears that whitespace in text is preserved only if the text also includes non-whitespace. (This can be a problem if, for example, you're formatting an XML document into HTML -- if the whitespace is lost, text that should be separated ends up glued together in the output document.) I tried adding the space-preserving attribute to the root element: $xmlstr = "<?xml version='1.0'?> <root xml:space="preserve"> a<x> </x> b <x> </x>c </root> "; However, then I get a parse error. -- Paul DuBois, paul@snake.net