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  • From: <nu.xom AT io7m.com>
  • To: xom-interest AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [XOM-interest] Electively preserving whitespace
  • Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2014 12:19:06 +0000

On Thu, 27 Mar 2014 11:30:22 +0000
<nu.xom AT io7m.com> wrote:

> Hello.
>
> I'm processing some XML into XHTML, and have a few elements where
> whitespace must be preserved (in order to essentially be inserted
> directly into XHTML <pre> elements). I want to use the Serializer to
> get indenting, but want to be able to avoid damaging the whitespace
> inside the few elements where it should be preserved.
>
> Is there a way to achieve this?

To answer my own question: Adding an xml:space="preserve" attribute on
the resulting <pre> element seems to make XOM do the right thing.

M




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