On Tue, May 7, 2019 at 2:07 PM Tibor Digana <tibordig...@apache.org> wrote:
> strange thing is that the new line is ignored. > Lurking here, but (a) I thought <systemPropertyVariables> in a forked execution were indeed passed on the command line as -D arguments, (b) the behavior may have to do instead with the fact that whitespace in XML is generally not significant so after 
 is expanded it is effectively stripped/trimmed from the XML yielding the empty string, and (c) the OP could try CDATA and an actual line separator character instead, maybe? Best, Laird
