Hi, I'm clearly late to the party but how about not getting apache to strip whitespace so you can read your html and getting your browser to do it instead? Firefox has at least one neat plugin/extension that formats html source into a colourised nested tree format, ignoring (for the most part, i guess) whitespace issues. Just my 2B. I don't remember the name of the extension I used for this either. -- noodl --------------------------------------------------------------------- The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx " from the digest: users-digest-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx