[jdom-interest] XMLOutputter changes from b8 to b9

[Beleznay, Dave]

Really?  that is odd,  it might be my copy of the jar file, I wasn't the
one who downloaded it, I'll try getting a new copy and trying again.
Are you sure that the spaces in the element <type> were preserved?

I've attatched my test class here, can you try running it when you get a
chance?

Thank you.

Cheers,

Dave

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bradley S. Huffman [mailto:hip at cs.okstate.edu] 
> Sent: Thursday, January 15, 2004 6:49 PM
> To: Beleznay, Dave
> Cc: jdom-interest at jdom.org
> Subject: Re: [jdom-interest] XMLOutputter changes from b8 to b9 
> 
> 
> When I uncomment the following line in your code I get the 
> results you want with B9.
> 
>          //xmlOutputter.setTextTrim(true);
> 
> Brad
> 
> "Beleznay, Dave" writes:
> 
> > Hi There,
> > 
> > We've recently upgraded from Jdom b8 to b9, and had a few errors in 
> > the upgrade process.
> > 
> > If I have an XML document like so:
> > 
> >         String xml =3D=20
> >             "<enterprise>\n"+
> >             "<properties>\n"+
> >             "    <datasource>WebCT</datasource>\n"+
> >             "    <type>  Migration</type>\n"+
> >             "    <datetime>2002-06-06T14:59:05</datetime>\n"+
> >             "</properties>\n"+
> >             "</enterprise>\n";
> > 
> > Where the spaces in front of <datasource> are not relevant, but the 
> > spaces inside the elements (e.g. <type>) are relevant (this 
> is just a 
> > fragment of a larger bit of XML, it isn't really the <type> 
> field that 
> > matters here). When I put the document into Jdom, I get different 
> > behaviour between Jdom b8 and b9.  I'd like to know the expected 
> > behaviour, and if it doesn't match my desired behaviour, 
> approximately 
> > how I'm supposed to fix my code. =20
> > 
> > 
> > Using the string above and the following code in Jdom b8  I get the 
> > output below.
> > 
> >         SAXBuilder builder =3D new SAXBuilder();
> >         Document doc =3D builder.build(new StringReader(xml));
> >        =20
> >         XMLOutputter xmlOutputter =3D new XMLOutputter("\t", true);
> >         xmlOutputter.setOmitDeclaration(true);
> >         xmlOutputter.setLineSeparator("\n");
> >         //xmlOutputter.setTextTrim(true);
> >         String output =3D = 
> > xmlOutputter.outputString(doc.getRootElement());
> >         System.out.println(output);
> > 
> > Desired output ( and output received from b8):
> > 
> > output=3D 
> > 
> "<enterprise>\n\t<properties>\n\t\t<datasource>WebCT</datasource>\n\t\
> > t<
> > type>
> > 
> Migration</type>\n\t\t<datetime>2002-06-06T14:59:05</datetime>\n\t</pr
> > op
> > erties>\n</enterprise>"
> > 
> > 
> > When we upgraded to Jdom b9 we were in for a little bit of a 
> > surprise.=20
> > 
> > Output from b9 without TextTrim:
> > 
> > output=3D "<enterprise>\n\t\n\n\t<properties>\n\t\t\n
> > \n\t\t<datasource>WebCT</datasource>\n\t\t\n    \n\t\t<type>
> > Migration</type>\n\t\t\n 
> > 
> \n\t\t<datetime>2002-06-06T14:59:05</datetime>\n\t\t\n\n\t</properties
> > >\
> > n\t\n\n</enterprise>"
> > 
> > Output from b9 with TextTrim:
> > 
> > output=3D 
> > 
> "<enterprise>\n\t<properties>\n\t\t<datasource>WebCT</datasource>\n\t\
> > t<
> > 
> type>Migration</type>\n\t\t<datetime>2002-06-06T14:59:05</datetime>\n\
> > type>t<
> > /properties>\n</enterprise>"
> > 
> > (this is close, but took the spaces out before "   Migration" )=20
> > 
> > Unfortunately the code farther down the line (not using 
> jdom) which is 
> > analyzing the xml has problems with the string  "\n\t\t\n 
> > \n\t\t<datasource>WebCT<datasource>" and interprets the value as " 
> > WebCT". I'm not happy with that either, but right now it's 
> easier to 
> > fix the behaviour of Jdom.
> > 
> > It looks like this was changed XMLOutputter 1.87, and I'm trying to 
> > figure out why.  I'd like to remove the whitespace outside the 
> > elements, while preserving the whitespace inside.  As a temporary 
> > measure I've added the check for currentFormat.newlines back to our 
> > skipLeadingWhite method in XMLOutputter, but I'd like a 
> more permanent 
> > solution. =20
> > 
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