I don't really think we should "fix" this. These "phantom nodes" do not cause any erroneous behavior in Inkscape itself. As for XML editor, it just correctly shows everything there is in the document, including whitespace nodes.
I don't really think we should "fix" this. These "phantom
nodes" do not cause any erroneous behavior in Inkscape
itself. As for XML editor, it just correctly shows
everything there is in the document, including whitespace
nodes.