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

My experience with it has been as the following

MyTypeDocument doc = MyTypeDocument.Factory.newInstance();
MyType type = doc.addNewMyType();
type.setMyValue("abcd   ");

doc.toString(); 
prints 
<myValue>abcd</myValue>

doc.xmlText();  //note without xmlOptions
prints
<myValue>abcd   </myValue>

Apparently there is a difference between toString() and xmlText()
methods.  I did not look at the source code yet. But I think the issues
are related.


Thanks,
 
Dogan Atay

-----Original Message-----
From: Jeegar Shah [mailto:jeegarshah@xxxxxxxxxxx] 
Sent: Wednesday, January 26, 2005 2:46 PM
To: user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: Trailing blank space / Whitespace is not preserved :
XmlObject.newDomNode

This I think applies for the structural part of XML and so maybe user
can't 
control what kind of whitespace is used between elements closing 
(\aElement>) and next element opening brackets (<anotherElement) and
also 
the whitespace between two attributes etc.
But it does not apply to the value itself.

so If you have a data value "abcd   " (Notice its abcd followed with 3 
blanks) this is what I was expecting my XML to look like.

<aElement aAttribute="abcd   ">abcd   </aElement>

whereas its coming out as
<aElement aAttribute="abcd">abcd</aElement>

which in current project is interepreted as distorted data.

Is there any setting our workaround to this ?

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>Unfortunately, the parser we use is not reporting this information.
Also,
>and more importantly, this whitespace outside the document element is
not
>considered part of the XML Infoset.  XmlBeans, in general, supports
only
>the data model specified by the XML Infoset:
>
>     http://www.w3.org/TR/xml-infoset/
>
>Note section 2.1 (1) where it specifies that the document must have one
>element and may have comments or PI's.  Character data is not allowed.
>
>So, XmlBeans does not preserve the exact syntax of an incoming
document,
>just the Xml Infoset.  There are many other examples of this.  One is
that
>the white space between attributes is not preserved.
>
>- Eric
>
> > 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 ?
> >
> >
> >
> >
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