RE: carriage return in attribute not preserved

[Sam Pullara]

The conversion of a LF to a space in attribute values is actually in the specification. See XML 1.0.   Sam -----Original Message----- From: Greg Matthews [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, February 14, 2001 7:25 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: carriage return in attribute not preserved dear all,   how do i preserve carriage returns inside attributes?   if i have some xml as a String,   <x a="hello world"/>   then when i parse it and then serialize it like follows the carriage return is lost, and i end up with   <x a="hello world"/>     org.apache.xerces.parsers.DOMParser parser = new org.apache.xerces.parsers.DOMParser();   InputSource is = new InputSource( new ByteArrayInputStream( s.getBytes()));   parser.parse( is );   Element n2 = parser.getDocument().getDocumentElement();   OutputFormat of = new OutputFormat();   of.setOmitXMLDeclaration( true );   of.setIndenting( false );   org.apache.xml.serialize.XMLSerializer ser = new XMLSerializer( System.out, of );   ser.asDocumentHandler();   ser.setOutputFormat( of );   ser.serialize( n2 ); what do i need to do to keep the original format?   thanks, greg.