[jdom-interest] XMLOutputter and newlines afterdeclaration/doctype

[Elliotte Rusty Harold]

At 1:06 PM -0500 12/19/02, <Vadim.Strizhevsky at morganstanley.com> wrote:

>Why do you all feel that it is such a big or unusual thing to ask for,
>to be able to produce XML with no white space or newlines? You already
>have API that is supposed to control this, but you arbitrarily decided
>to not observe it in one place. That just doesn't make any logical sense
>to me.


It's not at all arbitrary. White space inside the root element is 
very different from white space outside the root element. That's 
XML's rules, not ours. JDOM lets you control the white space inside 
the root element because that matters. It doesn't let you control the 
white space outside the root element because it doesn't matter.

No XML-aware process should care about where white space is placed 
outside the root element. You want to use a non-XML aware process to 
handle your documents. That's the only reason you're having trouble. 
That's outside the scope of what JDOM is trying to do.
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