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RE: New line in attribute

• To: "'Baisak, Ranjan'" <ranjan_baisak@m...>,<xml-dev@l...>
• Subject: RE: New line in attribute
• From: "Michael Kay" <mike@s...>
• Date: Tue, 24 May 2005 16:48:01 +0100
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This is an XML feature called "attribute value normalization". You can't
switch it off, it's built into the XML specification.

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/ 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Baisak, Ranjan [mailto:ranjan_baisak@m...] 
> Sent: 24 May 2005 15:15
> To: xml-dev@l...
> Subject:  New line in attribute
> 
>  
> I am using Xerces for parsing. My xml has an attribute with new lines.
> specification="This is a test. This is a test . 
> 
> This is a test . This is a test.
> 
> This is a test. This is a test." 
> 
> On getAttribute() returns a string with new lines are stripped. How to
> get the exact text with new lines?
> 
> regards,
> -Ranjan
> 
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