XML growth after repeated XUpdate commands

25 Jun 2003 15:53:11 -0000

I noticed that whenever an element of an XML document is removed by means of an XUpdate remove command, blank spaces are left in place of the removed element.
 
My application does lots of XUpdate removes and appends on medium sized XML docs. As I result I will end up with large documents containing lots of spaces.
 
For example, assuming this is the original XML doc:
 
<doc>
    <elem1>xxxx</elem1>
    <elem2>xxxx</elem2>
</doc>
 
After removing elem2 and adding elem3 this is how that doc would look like after exporting it to a flat text file:
 
<doc>
    <elem1>xxxx</elem1>
 
    <elem2>xxxx</elem3>
</doc>
 
For relatively static documents, it's not a problem.
But even for small docs, if they are extensively through a similar process, they might grow too large, unnecessarily.
 
Could this be considered a bug and be properly fixed?
Or is there a straightforward workaround?
 
Thanks a lot,
 
jlerm

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