I did some debugging tonight and it is as you suspected, caused by the changes centering around revision 1.44. Also, as Adam suggested, I could revert to the old behavior by setting the XMLUni::fgDOMWRTWhitespaceInElementContent feature to false, except that Xerces will not allow me to set that feature to false due to the following (line 284 of DOMWriterImpl.cpp):
static const bool featuresSupported[] = { false, true, // canonical-form true, true, // discard-default-content true, true, // entity true, true, // format-pretty-print false, true, // normalize-characters true, true, // split-cdata-sections false, true, // validation true, false, // whitespace-in-element-content true, true, // byte-order-mark true, true // xml-declaration }; It looks like support for setting that feature to false is disabled. Does anyone know why? Also, I think I also understand why files take on more and more blank lines the more you read and write them. It seems that if you use the "format-pretty-print" and "whitespace-in-element-content" together, then the following happens: 1. The DOMWriter writes out two whitespace only TEXT nodes before and after the CDATA section due to the fact that the "whitespace-in-element-content" feature is set. 2. The "format-pretty-print" feature causes blank lines to be written before and after the CDATA section when the CDATA itself is being written. 3. Next time the XML file is read, the two whitespace-only nodes before and after the CDATA now contain the extra blank lines added in step 2. On the next write, the process starts at step 1 again, writes the (now longer) TEXT nodes, then adds more blank lines before and after the CDATA in step 2, and the TEXT nodes are even larger when read in next time (and so on...). I don't know if that classes as a bug, but it's probably not desirable to anyone. I guess the thing is just don't use those two features together...? Tom. --- Gareth Reakes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hey, > > > > On the other hand, there are at > > least two people who would rather DOMWriter didn't > insert blank lines. > > Here's what I'd suggest: try hacking it up as I > suggested. If you like > > the results, file a bug, and one of us can attach > a patch. Further > > discussion can be part of the bug for posterity. > > > > > Sounds good to me. I don't have a chance to look > now, but my gut > feeling is that this "introduced" it > > revision 1.44 > date: 2003/11/24 11:10:58; author: gareth; state: > Exp; lines: +6 -3 > Fix for bug 22917. Patch by Adam Heinz . > > so we better make sure that it does not break > whatever that bug is. > > > Gareth > > > -- > Gareth Reakes, Managing Director Parthenon > Computing > +44-1865-811184 > http://www.parthcomp.com > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? New and Improved Yahoo! Mail - Send 10MB messages! http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]