http://help.adobe.com/en_US/ColdFusion/9.0/Developing/WSc3ff6d0ea77859461172... "if an XML comment is in the middle of a block of text, the DOM node view represents its position in the text while the basic view does not."
http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/struct/text.html#idx-white_space-2 "Thus, authors, and in particular authoring tools, should write:
<P>We offer free <A>technical support</A> for subscribers.</P>
and not:
<P>We offer free<A> technical support </A>for subscribers.</P>"
So we see that they are different. So the parser should not munch them down the same way.