Comment 4 for bug 167125

*bow head* ... I agree that the scope of the bug should be
reduced to that of a display problem in the XML editor.
Nonetheless, I would still like to see the XML editor
suppress those "phantom nodes", because they are not nodes
at all but merely, as the spec states, whitespace used for
formatting, and a situation should never arise where some
whitespace gets interpreted as a node whereas other
whitespace does not.

Inkscape ignores whitespace when displaying an SVG file, but
it's XML editor also "displays" the same SVG file and
should, therefore also ignore whitespace.

Also, upon further investigation, it turns out that it is
the presence of "metadata" nodes and such that end up
killing svg2pdf, rather than the presence of the whitespace,
as I originally thought.