[jdom-interest] Element attributes removing white space and returns

[Jason Hunter]

If you read the XML specification, you'll see that attribute values are
required to be normalized by the parser.  If you want whitespace
preserved, you need to use elements.

-jh-

Matt Petteys wrote:
> 
> Is there any equivalent function of setTextNormalize for attributes that
> will prevent white space or returns from being removed from attribute
> values..   Take a look at the following code which fails on the equals
> comparison of the attVal value because the \n character has been removed.
> 
> import java.io.*;
> import org.jdom.*;
> import org.jdom.input.*;
> import org.jdom.output.XMLOutputter;
> 
> public class testjdom {
> 
>         public static void main(String[] args) {
> 
>                 try {
> 
>                         System.out.println("starting");
> 
>                         XMLOutputter builder = null;
>                         Writer writer = null;
> 
>                         builder = new XMLOutputter();
>                         builder.setTextNormalize(false);
>                         builder.setOmitDeclaration(false);
>                         builder.setOmitEncoding(false);
> 
>                         System.out.println("creating");
> 
>                         String value = "line\nline2>";
> 
>                         Element e = new Element("test");
> 
>                         //  set the base element to the constant value
>                         e.setText(value);
> 
>                         // create a test attribute using the constant value
>                         e.setAttribute("t", value);
> 
>                         System.out.println("writing");
> 
>                         Document d = new Document(e);
>                         Writer w = new FileWriter("c:\\temp\\test.xml", false);
>                         builder.output(d, w);
>                         w.close();
>                         builder = null;
> 
>                         System.out.println("reading");
> 
>                         DOMBuilder input = new DOMBuilder();
>                         Document d2 = input.build(new FileInputStream("c:\\temp\\test.xml"));
>                         input = null;
> 
>                         //  read the base elment value to compare to the constant
>                         String elVal = d2.getRootElement().getText();
> 
>                         //  read the test attribute value to compare against the constant
>                         String attVal = d2.getRootElement().getAttribute("t").getValue();
> 
>                         if (!value.equals(attVal))
>                                 System.out.println("wrong attribute val:[" + attVal + "]");
>                         else
>                                 System.out.println("attribute value correct");
> 
>                         if (!value.equals(elVal))
>                                 System.out.println("wrong element val:[" + elVal + "]");
>                         else
>                                 System.out.println("element value correct");
> 
>                 } catch (Exception e) {
>                         System.out.println("exception");
>                         e.printStackTrace();
>                 }
> 
>                 System.out.println("done");
> 
>         }
> 
> }
> 
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