Hi Jörg, The spaces are preserved when I serialize using toXML method. When I check with an editor I see the original indentation.
But when I use the following method xstream.fromXML(myXMLString) to deserialize, all the newlines and tabs characters are replaced by simple whitespaces characters. Is it more clear ? > Hi Nicolas, > > Nicolas HERNANDEZ wrote: > >> Dear all, >> >> I would like to preserve the spaces after deserialization. >> >> I read that the substitution of newlines, tabs characters with spaces >> is part of the XML specification [1]. >> I would prefer not to use xml entities as it is suggested. >> >> I also read that the XML recommendation offers a way to keep these >> characters by using the special attribute xml:space="preserve". >> Unfortunately it seems that no available parser accept it. >> Is there one ? Any other idea by using converters may be ? Do I have to >> implement my own parser ? >> >> Any suggestion will be welcome. > > Sorry, but I don't understand, what you are really up-to. White spaces in > XML values *are* preserved, because they are part of an objects value. > Apart > from that you get an object (graph) as result and there's no equivalent > for > white spaces between Java objects ... ?!? > > Cheers, > - Jörg > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from this list, please visit: > > http://xircles.codehaus.org/manage_email > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe from this list, please visit: http://xircles.codehaus.org/manage_email
