Hello David,
As far as I know, this functionality is already available ...
> 1. Apparently you can state that white space and cr/lf are part of an > element and need to be preserved. So <Data><Font>hi here</Font></Data> > is different from <Data> <Font>hi there</Font> </Data>. And in > this case, there needs to be: > > a. A way to create these nodes initially with the spacing. > b. A way to make sure that any XMLWriter type class preserves it
a. Please use the following property in the SAXReader. <http://www.dom4j.org/apidocs/org/dom4j/io/SAXReader.html#setStripWhitespaceText(boolean)>
b. Make sure to set the correct settings on the OutputFormat for the writer, do not add extra newlines and do not trim the text.
Regards, Edwin
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