+ normalize I see no difference with or without normalize
Java 17 (and same results from 10,18,19) en032339@C02CJMZ8MD6M bin % ./java -version java version "17.0.6" 2023-01-17 LTS Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 17.0.6+9-LTS-190) Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM (build 17.0.6+9-LTS-190, mixed mode, sharing) en032339@C02CJMZ8MD6M test1 % cat src/test.groovy import groovy.xml.* String xml = $/<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <root><erick banana="yellow" apple="red"/><erick crypto-banana="yellow" apple="red"/></root> /$ def doc = new XmlParser().parseText(xml) new File('test.xml').withWriter('UTF-8') { it << XmlUtil.serialize(doc).normalize() } en032339@C02CJMZ8MD6M test1 % cat test.xml <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><root> <erick banana="yellow" apple="red"/> <erick crypto-banana="yellow" apple="red"/> </root> en032339@C02CJMZ8MD6M test1 % hexdump -C test.xml 00000000 3c 3f 78 6d 6c 20 76 65 72 73 69 6f 6e 3d 22 31 |<?xml version="1| 00000010 2e 30 22 20 65 6e 63 6f 64 69 6e 67 3d 22 55 54 |.0" encoding="UT| 00000020 46 2d 38 22 3f 3e 3c 72 6f 6f 74 3e 0a 20 20 20 |F-8"?><root>. | 00000030 20 0a 20 20 3c 65 72 69 63 6b 20 62 61 6e 61 6e | . <erick banan| 00000040 61 3d 22 79 65 6c 6c 6f 77 22 20 61 70 70 6c 65 |a="yellow" apple| 00000050 3d 22 72 65 64 22 2f 3e 0a 20 20 20 20 0a 20 20 |="red"/>. . | 00000060 3c 65 72 69 63 6b 20 63 72 79 70 74 6f 2d 62 61 |<erick crypto-ba| 00000070 6e 61 6e 61 3d 22 79 65 6c 6c 6f 77 22 20 61 70 |nana="yellow" ap| 00000080 70 6c 65 3d 22 72 65 64 22 2f 3e 0a 20 20 0a 3c |ple="red"/>. .<| 00000090 2f 72 6f 6f 74 3e 0a |/root>.| 00000097 Output using java 8 en032339@C02CJMZ8MD6M bin % ./java -version java version "1.8.0_251" Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.8.0_251-b08) Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM (build 25.251-b08, mixed mode) en032339@C02CJMZ8MD6M test1 % cat test.xml <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><root> <erick banana="yellow" apple="red"/> <erick crypto-banana="yellow" apple="red"/> </root> en032339@C02CJMZ8MD6M test1 % hexdump -C test.xml 00000000 3c 3f 78 6d 6c 20 76 65 72 73 69 6f 6e 3d 22 31 |<?xml version="1| 00000010 2e 30 22 20 65 6e 63 6f 64 69 6e 67 3d 22 55 54 |.0" encoding="UT| 00000020 46 2d 38 22 3f 3e 3c 72 6f 6f 74 3e 0a 20 20 3c |F-8"?><root>. <| 00000030 65 72 69 63 6b 20 62 61 6e 61 6e 61 3d 22 79 65 |erick banana="ye| 00000040 6c 6c 6f 77 22 20 61 70 70 6c 65 3d 22 72 65 64 |llow" apple="red| 00000050 22 2f 3e 0a 20 20 3c 65 72 69 63 6b 20 63 72 79 |"/>. <erick cry| 00000060 70 74 6f 2d 62 61 6e 61 6e 61 3d 22 79 65 6c 6c |pto-banana="yell| 00000070 6f 77 22 20 61 70 70 6c 65 3d 22 72 65 64 22 2f |ow" apple="red"/| 00000080 3e 0a 3c 2f 72 6f 6f 74 3e 0a |>.</root>.| 0000008a Above code run from Eclipse. Maybe that matters? XmlSlurper…. No see none of the above issues. From: Paul King <pa...@asert.com.au> Date: Friday, March 31, 2023 at 11:27 AM To: users@groovy.apache.org <users@groovy.apache.org> Subject: [EXT] Re: Extra linefeeds with groovy.xml.XmlUtil.serialize If you add ".normalize()", does that make any difference? I am trying to determine is there are CR chars in the output. Perhaps piping to od or some octal/hex dump program. There are also various parser options/features that might be different on different platforms. Does XmlSlurper exhibit the same behavior? Can you try trimWhitespace and keepIgnorableWhitespace on XmlParser? There are also setFeature and setProperty methods on XmlParser. I don't think they will help in your case but they have helped for other tricky XML scenarios. Cheers, Paul. On Sat, Apr 1, 2023 at 1:24 AM Nelson, Erick <erick.nel...@hdsupply.com<mailto:erick.nel...@hdsupply.com>> wrote: From: Nelson, Erick <erick.nel...@hdsupply.com<mailto:erick.nel...@hdsupply.com>> Date: Friday, March 31, 2023 at 7:53 AM To: users@groovy.apache.org<mailto:users@groovy.apache.org> <users@groovy.apache.org<mailto:users@groovy.apache.org>> Subject: Re: Extra linefeeds with groovy.xml.XmlUtil.serialize This appears to be a Java problem, not a Groovy problem, and possibly an OpenJDK issue. I’ve only been able to test this further on my Mac laptop as I cannot install different versions of Java. Redhat ON LINUX Java 8 works as expected I’ve tried Java 10, 11, 17, 18 and 19 and all appear to exhibit this behavior From: Nelson, Erick <erick.nel...@hdsupply.com<mailto:erick.nel...@hdsupply.com>> Date: Tuesday, March 21, 2023 at 10:25 AM To: users@groovy.apache.org<mailto:users@groovy.apache.org> <users@groovy.apache.org<mailto:users@groovy.apache.org>> Subject: Extra linefeeds with groovy.xml.XmlUtil.serialize I get extra line feeds on my mac when running identical code. Does anybody know why this would be? On Linux… (expected output) [tauser02@cfmips01ld0s work]$ groovy -v Groovy Version: 4.0.10 JVM: 1.8.0_362 Vendor: Red Hat, Inc. OS: Linux [tauser02@cfmips01ld0s work]$ cat test.groovy String xml = $/<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><root><elem1 attr1="value1" attr2="value2"/><elem2 attr1="value4" attr2="value4"/></root>/$ def doc = new groovy.xml.XmlParser().parseText(xml) println groovy.xml.XmlUtil.serialize(doc) [tauser02@cfmips01ld0s work]$ groovy test.groovy <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><root> <elem1 attr1="value1" attr2="value2"/> <elem2 attr1="value4" attr2="value4"/> </root> On my MAC…(note extra line feeds output) en032339@C02CJMZ8MD6M ~ % groovy -v Groovy Version: 4.0.10 JVM: 18.0.2.1 Vendor: Eclipse Adoptium OS: Mac OS X en032339@C02CJMZ8MD6M ~ % cat test.groovy String xml = $/<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><root><elem1 attr1="value1" attr2="value2"/><elem2 attr1="value4" attr2="value4"/></root>/$ def doc = new groovy.xml.XmlParser().parseText(xml) println groovy.xml.XmlUtil.serialize(doc) en032339@C02CJMZ8MD6M ~ % groovy test.groovy <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><root> <elem1 attr1="value1" attr2="value2"/> <elem2 attr1="value4" attr2="value4"/> </root>