> I knew that it was well-formed, thanks, but I was not able to imagine why > the XML was generated in this unusually formatted way.
For unknown DTD or XML Schema, whitespace between </ends> and <begins> may be significant (e.g. inside a DocBook <programlisting>). Putting the line breaks *inside* the elements, which is what is being done here: > <article > ><title > ></title > ><section > ><title > ></title > ><para > ></para > ></section > ></article > > is always safe, and although it may look odd to humans, it will never confuse a machine. When XXE generates "indented" mode, it will avoid putting whitespace in elements with format="preserve", but if the DTD or XML Schema cannot be found, the "indented" mode might generate a different document (perhaps it warns or refuses to generate indented output in this case, I'm not sure). @alex
