Due to the structure of TAL, the output of TAL pages often includes a lot of whitespace that are added to make the source readable, but once processed the lines they are on can disappear completely. It would be nice if the TAL parser had an option that could remove all whitespace at the beginning and end of lines, and remove all blank lines. For example, I downloaded the www.plone.org home page and it was 47704 bytes. I removed all whitespace from the beginning and end of lines, and then removed blank lines, and it was down to 35087 bytes - that's a more than 25% saving, and the output renders exactly the same in web browsers. This saving will improve load times for the end user, both by being less to download and less for their browser to hold in memory. For the server, the improvements are huge. Obviously less bandwidth is required, but also less space will be needed in the various caches meaning the caches will expire less, and/or be equally functional will less RAM or disc space. The ability to switch off this feature and leave whitespace in for debugging may be useful, but not very, because you can always use an XML indenting tool to get readable output from TAL. Robert (Jamie) Munro