Hi Nicholas, I'm not sure I follow the issue you're having. Can you give a concrete example?
Thanks. Michael Glavassevich XML Parser Development IBM Toronto Lab E-mail: mrgla...@ca.ibm.com E-mail: mrgla...@apache.org <thayer_nicho...@emc.com> wrote on 12/14/2009 01:02:22 PM: > Hello, > > I have an element that usually contains alpha characters, but > depending upon the user input can contain a single space. I'm using > the DocumentBuilderFactory to create an instance of DocumentBuilder, > and then generating DOM elements from that and serializing the > output to a file. > > I'm seeing the resulting serialized file is simply an empty XML > element. Is it possible to configure the DOM builder to preserve > the spaces if they exist, or does this go against the XML spec? If > so, can you help me understand how to make that happen? > > Thanks, > Nicholas
