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Background: I'm using a global setting page for a news package, and one of the setting set on that page is the namespace for new news entries. 

The news entry form is set up thus:

{{#forminput:form=CFFC News Entry|query string=namespace={{#show: CFFC News Global Settings | ?CFFC News Namespace# -}}}}

The problem is, the output form looks like this:

<p><input type="text" name="page_name" size="25" value="" class="formInput" />
<input type="hidden" name="form" value="CFFC News Entry">
<input type="hidden" name="namespace" value="&#9;&#9;&#9;&#9;&#10;&#9;&#9;&#9;&#9;&#9;News" />
<input type="submit" value="Create or edit" /></p>
<p>			</form>

All that leading noise in the namespace value results in a page name that can't be created.

The ideal solution would be to have #show, at least, strip leading and trailing white space, however that may have formatting consequences for people who've written, “some text{{#show: ...}}some other text”, and had white space inserted. 

For the time being, a work around I'm using is to pack the #show inside padleft, with the padding set to zero:

{{#forminput:form=CFFC News Entry|query string=namespace={{padleft:{{#show: CFFC News Global Settings | ?CFFC News Namespace# -}}|0}}}}