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• when serializing svg, make sure there is no whitespace under <text>

Either of these would break XML compliance.

Disagree on the last one. Where's the incompliance? The user certainly did not _ask_ us to insert whitespace text nodes between the tspans, and by not inserting them we won't break any standard. There's no standard saying XML tags must be on separate lines :) So I like this option most, but unfortunately it requires digging deep into the parsing and serializing code, which I'm frankly afraid to do.

Well, here's a lesson for me: never be afraid of anything too early :) It turned out to be very simple. A patched repr-io is committed, works for me, please test.

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