> But I have my reasons to want to preserve the text as-is. Is there a > quick and dirty way to get dom4j 1.6 to leave the newline and other > whitespace alone as I parse a string?
No, there isn't ... dom4j does not parse the XML, in the background it uses a XML Parser (SAX) to do this and any conforming XML parser will normalize the attribute whitespace. The only way around this would be to use a non-conforming XML Parser. Regards, Edwin -- http://www.edankert.com/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ dom4j-user mailing list dom4j-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dom4j-user