The whitespace is not generated by tomcat, but is present in your
source-jsp page between the jsp tags.
If you have a page that starts like:
<%@ page contentType="text/html"%>
<%@ page session="true"%>
<%@ page import="java.util.*,org.vanlerberghe.luc.spaans.*"%>
<jsp:useBean id="topicHome" type="TopicHome" scope="application"/>
<html>
then it may not be obvious, but there are 4 (four!) linefeeds between
the jsp tags and your first <html> tag. The way I solve this, without
giving up the readability of my page too much is by putting the closing
bracket on the start of the next line like so:
<%@ page contentType="text/html"
%><%@ page session="true"
%><%@ page import="java.util.*,org.vanlerberghe.luc.spaans.*"
%><jsp:useBean id="topicHome" type="TopicHome" scope="application"
/><html>
This way "<html>" will be the very first characters written to output.
I do similar things with <% ... %> too, like:
<%
for (int i=0;i<nTopic;i++) {
Topic topic=topicHome.getTopic(i);
String selected=(topic.selected) ? " selected" : "";
%><option value="<%=topic.id%>"<%=selected%>><%=topic.description%>
<%
}
%>
(Note the single linefeed at the end of the line starting with
"%><option")
This will generate a nice looking list in the html source like:
<option value="id0">description0
<option value="id1" selected>description1
<option value="id2">description2
I believe this trick is especially inportant to get the '<?xml
version="1.0"?>' at the start of the output, because XML requires it to
be at offset 0 (I think).
Luc Vanlerberghe
P.s.: By the way: there is no way to let tomcat do this automatically.
It is impossible for it to know which whitespace is needed and which
not. In html, whitespace sometimes *does* make a difference (e.g. in a
<pre> block)
Cato Førrisdahl wrote:
>
> Hi,
> I have some jsp-pages which, when run, generates a lot of
> whitespace in the resulting page. It typically looks something like:
> ---Start---
>
> <?xml version="1.0"?>
> ...
> --Stop--
> Is there a way to prevent tomcat from making all this whitespace and make
> output like:
> --Start--
> <?xml version="1.0"?>
> --Stop--
>
> ?
>
> Cato Førrisdahl
>
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