XOM API for Processing XML with Java

[Nils_Kilden-Pedersen AT Countrywide.Com]

Shouldn't you be using the \n only, per the XML spec 2.11, XOM being the 
XML processor?

xom-interest-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org wrote on 04/20/2003 08:02:51 AM:

> I've been using \r\n as the default line separator for XOM if nothing 
> different is specified. However, yesterday this tripped me up in a 
> surprising way.
> 
> I read in a document, made some modifications to it, and wrote it 
> back out again. Having done this, when I loaded it into BBEdit most 
> of the document was stuffed on a single line. Investiagtion revealed 
> that the line ends were indeed \n as I expected, which BBEdit can 
> normally handle. What was going on?
> 
> Here's what I eventually discovered:
> 
> 1. The parser changes almost all line ends to \n on input. Thus the 
> parsed document object had nothing but \n for line ends.
> 
> 2. I did not add any line breaks or adjust the formatting in any way 
> while modifying the document (I was just changing the namespaces of 
> some elements)
> 
> 3. There was a single \r\n after the XML declaration which the 
> serializer output by default.
> 
> 4. BBEdit only accept the first line separator it finds in a document 
> as legal. In this case that was \r\n. The subsequent \n characters 
> were not treated as line breaks.
> 
> First a question: is this just a BBEdit quirk? Will other text 
> editors be happy with line breaks that are different in different 
> parts of the document? If so I probably don't have to worry about 
> this too much.
> 
> On the other hand, if this is a common problem. I might want to 
> change *all* the line breaks to the current line separator when 
> serializing. Currently this is only done if the serializer is either 
> indenting or wrapping or both. Thoughts?
> -- 
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