XML and newlines

[Martin v. Loewis]

"Chris Tavares" <christophertavares at earthlink.net> writes:

> Whitespace in XML is a little odd. It depends on the DTD/Schema wether it's
> significant or not. The normal solution is for the XML parser to have a
> "preserveWhitespace" setting, which will guarantee that you get everything
> (newlines and all). However, I took a spin through the minidom docs and
> couldn't find anything. Hmm... guess that's why it's a "mini" DOM. Have you
> tried using either SAX or 4DOM instead?

That is not the issue here. Preserving white space is only an option
for text content, and even if it is activated, line-break
normalization will still occur.

Regards,
Martin