Hello,
We use both xerces-c and xerces-j in our product. I have an element that usually contains alpha characters, but depending upon the user input can contain a single space. I'm using the DocumentBuilderFactory to create an instance of DocumentBuilder, and then generating DOM elements from that and serializing the output to a file. I'm seeing the resulting serialized file is simply an empty XML element. Is it possible to configure the DOM builder to preserve the spaces if they exist, or does this go against the XML spec? If so, can you help me understand how to make that happen? I could modify the writing and parsing of the element to always add some additional characters (such as quotes), but that doesn't seem like an elegant solution and the resulting data then has the additional characters. As a test and not a desired solution, I also tried performing a string replacement of space characters with   but the ampersand was replaced with the entity &. Thanks for the guidance on how to handle elements that could have just whitespace. Regards, Nicholas
