January 28, 2002 - Preserving White Spaces in XML | 2 | WebReference

January 28, 2002 - Preserving White Spaces in XML | 2

Yehuda Shiran January 28, 2002
Preserving White Spaces in XML
Tips: January 2002

Yehuda Shiran, Ph.D.
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Sometimes, you may want to preserve white spaces in the input XML file. You want the DOMDocument's xml property to reflect the input XML file as is, without any formatting. You can use the DOMDocument's preserveWhiteSpace property to control the parser behavior with respect to preservation of white spaces. By default, preserveWhiteSpace is false. If you load an XML file with these three lines:

<SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript">
<!--
function load2() {
  var xmldoc;
  xmldoc = new ActiveXObject("Msxml2.DOMDocument.3.0");
  xmldoc.async = false;
  xmldoc.load("mydvd.xml");
  alert(xmldoc.xml);
}
// -->
</SCRIPT>
you will get reformatted XML when echoing the xml property. But when you set preserveWhiteSpace to true in the above code:

<SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript">
<!--
function load1() {
  var xmldoc;
  xmldoc = new ActiveXObject("Msxml2.DOMDocument.3.0");
  xmldoc.preserveWhiteSpace = true;
  xmldoc.async = false;
  xmldoc.load("mydvd.xml");
  alert(xmldoc.xml);
}
// -->
</SCRIPT>
you will get the original XML when echoing the xml property.