[PHPTAL] Whitespace preservation, revisited :)

[Werner]

Hi!

I have actually changed my point of view on this - I have been telling 
other PHPTAL users for quite some time to use "the right tool for the 
job" (e.g. HTMLTidy) when it comes to pretty-printing (e.g. indented 
HTML/XML) output from PHPTAL templates.

Recently I have also run into some stumbling blocks in this regard. E.g. 
if you take great case in your markup, you don't want to run it though 
yet another parser just to have nicer markup output. Even worse, Tidy 
cannot *just* indent and beautify your code - it insists on "fixing" the 
sources, sometimes breaking perfectly tuned XHTML if it contains things 
like Google analytics code and the like. Then there's also the system 
overhead of parsing the markup (yet again), since PHPTAL does it anyways 
to start with.

So, being a great "fan" of PHPTAL I'm posing the question that has been 
asked before:
Is there a possibility of us seeing whitespace preservation from PHPTAL 
any time soon?

I have also read on the web site about the possibility of the whole 
PHPTAL codebase being re-written if time allows. Is there any truth in 
that? (Just for interest sake).

Are there any other low-overhead markup beautifiers out there that are 
any good (not stuff like php's DOM functions, which actually are quite 
slow).

Any replies on this 'ol subject will be much welcomed.

Thank you all,
Werner