Trailing blank space / Whitespace is not preserved : XmlObject.newDomNode

I have data with trailing blank spaces and because the user entered the 
spaces I need to preserve it.
This data is set to an element or attribute value of my XmlObject.

When I call XmlBean.newDomNode to get the top level 
org.w3c.xml.java.xml.Document the trailing blanks are removed.
Is there any way or setting to avoid this ?

I'm not using SAVE_PRETTY_PRINT option directly anywhere. Is this being used 
somewhere by default ?