XOM API for Processing XML with Java

[Christophe Marchand <christophe.marchand AT axyus.com>]

This works correctly for me.

Best regards,
Christophe

Le 18/01/2012 23:33, Stevenson, Todd (GE Healthcare) a écrit :
> This method:
>
> import nu.xom.Document;
> import nu.xom.Element;
> import nu.xom.Serializer;
>
>      void createXML() throws IOException {
>
>          Element root = new Element("Root");
>          Element child = new Element("Child");
child.addAttribute(new Attribute("xml:space", XMLConstants.XML_NS_URI, 
"preserve"));
>          child.appendChild("\n          first line   \n          second 
> line\n");
>          root.appendChild(child);
>
>          Document doc = new Document(root);
>
>          Serializer serializer = new Serializer(System.out, "ISO-8859-1");
>          serializer.setIndent(4);
>          serializer.setMaxLength(100);
>          serializer.write(doc);
>      }
>
> Generates this output:
>
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
> <Root>
>      <Child>  first line second line</Child>
> </Root>
>
>
> Note that it discards the extra white space and newline characters.     I 
> want to be able to preserve this whitespace to the output XML document.
>
> Thanks
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:xom-interest-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of Elliotte Rusty 
> Harold
> Sent: Wednesday, January 18, 2012 1:57 PM
> To: XOM API for Processing XML with Java
> Subject: Re: [XOM-interest] Preserve white space in text nodes
>
> On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 2:06 PM, Stevenson, Todd (GE 
> Healthcare)<Todd.T.Stevenson AT ge.com>  wrote:
> > I can't figure out how to preserve whitespace in a text node.
> >
> > I use the serializer to write my output and it strips the spaces and newline 
> > characters.
> >
> > Is there a configuration option to make this work correctly?
> Do you have code that demonstrates what's happening?
>
>
> --
> Elliotte Rusty Harold
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