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Ahmad Farid
Ahmad Farid

Reputation: 14774

How to correctly write xml document with spaces and new lines inside using CDATA?

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" standalone="yes"?>
<CodeCases>
  <Case1>
    <CodeText>
      <![CDATA[
for(var i=0;  i;10;i++) {
      var x;
}
]]>
    </CodeText>
  </Case1>
</CodeCases>

This is the code I'm using, however, when I open in browser, it doesn't read the new lines. What am I doing wrong?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 958

Answers (1)

Kasun Gajasinghe
Kasun Gajasinghe

Reputation: 2776

With CDATA, your new lines are preserved. The issue in your case isn't that. If you look at the source of generated html file (In firefox, via View -> Page Source or CTRL+U) you'll see that the new lines are preserved in the text. I've just tried your CDATA section by myself (via some XSLT processing).

What happened in your case is that the browser just doesn't care about the raw new lines, and multiple white-space added in html files.

To maintain the formatting of the text, you need to wrap the content with the white-space css property set to pre

ie, the HTML content will be something like,

<div style="white-space:pre;">
for(var i=0;  i;10;i++) {
      var x;
}
</div>

Usual way of maintaining line breaks is adding <br> tags. But it doesn't really apply here.

Upvotes: 1

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