ssi question...

I mostly lurk here; hoping this is an appropriate place for this 
question.  I have a weird situation going on with an SSI I am trying to 
implement.

What I've got is a set of html pages each of which is one large table.  I 
want to place a copyright notice on the bottom of each page.  If I create a 
row and embed it in each page, there is no large space between the bottom 
row and the rows above it.

However, if I put the bottom row into the included file, a large gap 
is  inserted between the html page and the copyright notice.  I've tried it 
many ways -- with the </table> in the html page and then a new table in the 
included page, or with ending the table only in the included page..

HTML before include
<table>
<tr>many rows </tr>
<tr>many rows </tr>
...
<tr>Copyright notice</tr>
</table>

HTML with SSI
<table>
<tr>many rows </tr>
<tr>many rows </tr>
...
<include "textfile.txt">

Where textfile.txt is
<tr>Copyright notice</tr>
</table>

and I've also tried

HTML with SSI
<table>
<tr>many rows </tr>
<tr>many rows </tr>
...
</table>
<include "textfile.txt">

Where textfile.txt is
<table>
<tr>Copyright notice</tr>
</table>

TIA,

--Emily
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