We have system tests that actually test this, so this kind of surprises me. Can you try with a more recent version of CXF. Also, make sure you have the woodstox parser available instead of the buggy one in the JDK.
Dan On Wednesday 10 November 2010 3:07:59 pm Aaron Ehrensberger wrote: > Hi, > > Does CXF have an issue with preserving leading whitespace inside XML > responses? Is there something special I need to be doing? > > Basically, I'm searching a file for a specific word and want to return the > line of the file that contains the word EXACTLY AS IS. However, the > leading whitespaces are being trimmed during the conversion process to > stream back the XML. > > For example...search a document for the word Running....my file contains > > $Id: RUNNING.txt 354430 2005-12-06 13:44:26Z yoavs $ > =================================================== > Running The Apache Tomcat 6.0 Servlet/JSP Container > =================================================== > Apache Tomcat 6.0 requires the Java 2 Standard Edition Runtime > Environment (JRE) version 5.0 or later. > > In the java code during debug, I find that > " Running The Apache Tomcat 6.0 Servlet/JSP Container" > is found as my string. It preserves the leading whitespace through the > DTO's and webservices until I "return" from the webservice. But, the XML > response contains > <searchHitRange> > <context>Running The Apache Tomcat 6.0 Servlet/JSP > Container</context> > </searchHitRange> > > ...with the whitespace gone. Is there a way to preserve it? I'm currently > running CXF 2.2.3. > > I'd appreciate any help, > > Aaron -- Daniel Kulp dk...@apache.org http://dankulp.com/blog