The site I'm working on uses Umbraco and has xslt macros to generate dynamic page title tags - but the title tags generated contain lots of whitespace and linefeeds. Now these macros can be changed so I'm sure that the contents of the title tag can be condensed, but at this stage of development we'd rather not do any work that is not essential.

I've checked W3 and Google but I'm struggling to find something conclusive on whitespace.

So I'd like to ask is a title tag formatted like this:

    <title>


Sitename - The official blah blah blah

 - Section
 - Section Search Results

    </title>

any worse for SEO than:

<title>Sitename - The official blah blah blah - Section - Section Search Results</title>

... and are there any other implications to leaving the title tag with whitespace in it?