Re: @item and @tab space in lists and tables

[Karl Berry]

    After more thinking, I think that removing spaces is right in html, but
    in xml it is better to keep them. In docbook I don't know, and in info
    keeps things as is.

Docbook should do the same as XML.  (Spaces are already so problematic
in XML I don't see much point in trying to do anything special.)

    in info keeps things as is.

I thought info was the other place where we want those spaces to be
ignored.  In Werner's example:

  @example
  @multitable @columnfractions .5 .5
  @headitem foo @tab bar
  @item foofoo @tab barbar
  @end multitable
  @end example

We don't want the spaces (or newlines) in the input to be passed through
to the output.  Do we?

karl