Article:		Controlling Whitespace, Part 1
Subject:		Preserve linefeed
Date:		2006-05-22 00:47:43
From:		ashwinijpatil
Hello, I have a requirement where I transform a XML document into another and then store it to the Database. To handle extraction/insertion of nodes, I use DOM before and after transformation. I need to preserve the linefeeds as they were. So "\r\n" should be "\r\n" in the output document and so on. But right now, my linefeed gets converted to "\n" while creating a String back from the DOM Document. I have tried using XMLSerializer and JDOM. Any input will be appreciated. Thanks in advance

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• Preserve linefeed
  2006-05-22 21:02:14 Bob DuCharme [Reply]
  
  I have very little experience with the DOM, but I do know that XML parsers don't care about the difference between \r\n and \n, and trying to get them to care is like trying to get them to care about attribute order. There are good reasons that they don't care (see the XML Recommendation), and to control things like this you need to use something like a perl script that treats the text as a string of bytes and not as XML.

  
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  • Preserve linefeed
    2008-06-16 05:58:01 Nishant Thorat [Reply]
    
    The XML parser treats newline sequence in a unique way (replacing newline by a single linefeed). This is to ensure the cross-platform compatibility e.g. in Windows linefeed is represented by linefeed + carriage while in Unix it is represented by linefeed character.