> Section 2.10 says that the XML processor must pass all characters that > are not markup to the application. Does that include my text element?
Yes. > Section 3.3.1 talks about normalising attributes. A text element isn't > a node attribute, right? No, this is only for attributes (for instance newlines are normalized in attributes). I think the problem is that in your document you have an internal DOCTYPE declaration, this declaration makes your parser (xerces/crimson) believe that any whitespace between elements is ignorable, the parser will now pass these ignorable characters on to the ignorableWhitespace() method. http://www.cafeconleche.org/books/xmljava/chapters/ch06s10.html The SAXContentHandler in dom4j does currently not implement this method and will discard all this whitespace. This should be easy to solve using the following code: MyContentHandler extends SAXContentHandler { public void ignorableWhitespace(char[] chars, int start, int length) throws SAXException { characters( chars, start, length); } } Code not tested. Regards, Edwin ------------------------------------------------------- SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide Read honest & candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start reading now. http://productguide.itmanagersjournal.com/ _______________________________________________ dom4j-user mailing list dom4j-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dom4j-user
