make.clean.html and Firefox handling of white-space: pre ?

[Mark Craig <mark.craig@gmail.com>]

Hello,

I liked setting <xsl:param name="make.clean.html" select="1" /> and using "white-space: pre;" in the CSS. Of course, I did this expecting readers to be able to copy/paste the pre formatted content in a sort of WYSIWYG way.

But I didn't test in Firefox until a reviewer mentioned that all the newlines were gone when he pasted. Then I saw https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=116083 : copy paste of CSS "white-space: pre;" content does not preserve whitespace.

This Firefox bug has been around for some time. It doesn't seem to be going away soon. Are there any plans to work around it in a future version of the DocBook XSL stylesheets?

Regards,
Mark