I am working to try to make dates not be a point of line break. example is:

I need:
10/31/2013

I am getting:
10/
31/2013

I have tried changing the slash to a html entity and I have set the prince-linebreak-magic to none with no results.

Am I missing something?

The prince-linebreak-magic property should work in this case:

.date { prince-linebreak-magic: none }

<span class="date">10/31/2013</span>

Can you attach a short sample document that demonstrates the problem?

thanks for the help found what the issue was. was setting the prince-linebreak-magic: none; on @page changed it to use the body and all is good.