Well, that's a crucial piece of information that you left out of your original question - you were using xmlText(XmlOptions), not xmlText() - and that's why you led others on a wild goose chase. This is NOT a bug then. Pretty print by its nature (by design) does not preserve whitespace. If you need to preserve whitespace you should not use pretty print. This has been stated multiple times in this forum.
-----Original Message----- From: dave [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, March 11, 2008 7:31 PM To: user@xmlbeans.apache.org Subject: Re: [is this a bug?] Re: xs:string - Isn't whitespaces preserved by default? I do setSave** (prettyPrint/PrintIndent) on XmlOptions object passed to xmlText(). The api doc clearly states that it'll reformat WhiteSpace chars. Shouldn't these apis honor the contract of underlying type definitions (like preserve WS chars for xs:string type,etc) irrespective of these Pretty options? What apis should a user use to preserve these WS chars yet have pretty print of XML using xmlText()/XmlOptions. -D --- Radu Preotiuc-Pietro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Agreed that the "string" type has whitespace > preserved. But I don't > think there is any "general" bug in this area. > > I have done a very very simple test: > Schema: > <xs:schema > xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema";> > <xs:element name="root" type="xs:string"/> > </xs:schema> > > Instance (test.xml): > <root> ABC </root> > > Code: > XmlObject doc = XmlObject.Factory.parse(new > File("test.xml")); > p(doc.schemaType().toString()); > p(doc.xmlText()); > > Output: > D=root > <root> ABC </root> > > So the spaces are in fact preserved. > > Maybe you are running into a weird edge-case or > maybe there is some > detail that you are missing, we would need more > details to find out > concretely what the problem is. > > Radu > > On Mon, 2008-03-10 at 00:41 -0700, dave wrote: > > Isn't it a bug with XmlBeans in that xs:string > type > > have whitespace chars removed when written using > > xmlText/other means? > > > > As per w3c standard, xs:string should have > whitespace > > chars preserved by default. We don't need to > define > > 'preserve' facets for this situation. > > > > -D > > --- Jacob Danner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > How are you generating the XML. I'm not positive > its > > > whitespace is > > > preserved if something like xmlText() is used. > > > I might try something like an > xs:normalizedString > > > and the whitespace=preserve. > > > -jacobd > > > > > > On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 4:57 PM, dave > > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > > I have an xs:string type element to hold some > > > regex > > > > expressions. I haven't put any > > > restrictions/facets for > > > > this xs:string type. Isn't by default, it > should > > > > preserve whitespace? Looks like the leading > and > > > > trailing spaces are removed when I generate > an > > > XML > > > > using XmlBeans apis. > > > > > > > > In general, what is the better XSD data type > to > > > hold > > > > regex patterns? Is it just xs:string OR > should I > > > > explicitly preserve Whitespace for this > > > xs:string? ________________________________________________________________________ ____________ Never miss a thing. Make Yahoo your home page. http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Notice: This email message, together with any attachments, may contain information of BEA Systems, Inc., its subsidiaries and affiliated entities, that may be confidential, proprietary, copyrighted and/or legally privileged, and is intended solely for the use of the individual or entity named in this message. If you are not the intended recipient, and have received this message in error, please immediately return this by email and then delete it. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
