Christian, I agree with your reading of the documentation of createPrettyPrint. However, it was doing *more* than what it said it was doing. Here's my element (for example): <sensors> BlueSensors </sensors>
createPrettyPrint *should* produce (according to the documentation): <sensors>BlueSensors</sensors> but instead, I get: <sensors/> createPrettyPrint stripped my content, and the documentation clearly states that it should not do that, and I don't believe that is what was intended. It does this for elements that have embedded newlines. createPrettyPrint works fine if the whitespace is only spaces, for example: <sensors> BlueSensor </sensor> So maybe my definition of whitespace was incorrect? From the XML Schema Part 2: Datatypes W3C Recommendation 02 May 2001(partial): "4.3.6 whiteSpace [Definition:] whiteSpace constrains the ·value space· of types ·derived· from string such that the various behaviors specified in Attribute Value Normalization in [XML 1.0 (Second Edition)] are realized. The value of whiteSpace must be one of {preserve, replace, collapse}. preserve No normalization is done, the value is not changed (this is the behavior required by [XML 1.0 (Second Edition)] for element content) replace All occurrences of #x9 (tab), #xA (line feed) and #xD (carriage return) are replaced with #x20 (space) collapse After the processing implied by replace, contiguous sequences of #x20's are collapsed to a single #x20, and leading and trailing #x20's are removed. " I assumed createPrettyPrint would be *collapsing* as defined. However, this may all be moot, as I recalled an earlier email regarding a possible bug in XMLWriter, so that when I retrieved the latest daily build my problem went away! I apologize for speaking too soon. thanx steve "Christian Holmqvist, IT, Posten" wrote: > Se documentation for createPrettyPrint: > > --- > public static OutputFormat createPrettyPrint() > A static helper method to create the default pretty printing format. This > format consists of an indent of 2 spaces, newlines after each element and > all other whitespace trimmed, and XMTML is false. > --- > > This is doing exactly how it should be doing. > > If you want to strip your element text of whitespace I would suggest that > you either do a walker that moves throw your document and removes the > whitespace. Or create your own implementation of the node that should ignore > whitespace (i.e. element). > > Cheers Christian > > > -----Ursprungligt meddelande----- > > Från: Stephen C. Upton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > Skickat: den 8 oktober 2002 03:37 > > Till: dom4j > > Ämne: [dom4j-user] Bug or feature? > > > > > > I read in the first snippet (identified by INPUT below) using > > SAXReader > > (both with setStripWhitespaceText to true and false). I then write out > > using XMLWriter with createPrettyPrint OutputFormat. I get the snippet > > identified below OUTPUT. Seems that the text of the elements that have > > newlines embedded in the element text get deleted along with the > > newlines. Obviously not what I want (well, maybe not obvious ;-) > > > > Suggestions? > > > > thanx > > steve > > p.s. this was my workaround to an earlier question about stripping > > whitespace within an element. > > ********* > > INPUT > > *********** > > <agent> > > <name> blueDude </name> > > <side> BLUE </side> > > <sensors> > > BlueSensor > > </sensors> > > <commDevices> > > Blue1 > > </commDevices> > > <movement> > > BlueMovement > > </movement> > > <decisions> > > viewSensors > > movement > > </decisions> > > <movementComponents> > > BlueMovementComponents > > </movementComponents> > > <commInterval> 20.0 </commInterval> > > <sentiment>BlueSentiment</sentiment> > > <refData>BlueReference</refData> > > </agent> > > ************ > > OUTPUT > > ********** > > <agent> > > <name>blueDude</name> > > <side>BLUE</side> > > <sensors/> > > <commDevices/> > > <movement/> > > <decisions/> > > <movementComponents/> > > <commInterval>20.0</commInterval> > > <sentiment>BlueSentiment</sentiment> > > <refData>BlueReference</refData> > > </agent> > > *********** > > > > > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > > This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek > > Welcome to geek heaven. > > http://thinkgeek.com/sf > > _______________________________________________ > > dom4j-user mailing list > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dom4j-user > > ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ dom4j-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dom4j-user