re: jason at omegavortex dot com below, another way to deal with whitespace issues is:
function charData($parser,$data)
{
$char_data = trim($data);
if($char_data)
$char_data = preg_replace('/ */',' ',$data);
$this->cdata .= $char_data;
}
This means that:
<p>here is my text <a href="something">my text</a>
and here is some more after some spaces at the
beginning of the line</p>
comes out properly. You could do further replacements if you want to deal with tabs in your files. i only ever use spaces. if you only use trim() then you would lose the space before the <a> tag above, but trim() is a good way to check for completely empty char data, then just replace more than one space with a single space. this will preserve a single space at the beginning and end of the cdata.