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ZoolWay
ZoolWay

Reputation: 5505

.NET XmlDocument preserve whitespace

I am parsing a XML document with XmlDocument. When the source file contains

<template>
  <name>ABC</name>
  <version>1</version>
  ABC
  DEF
  <author />
  ABC

I often need to get the pure underlying XML and I use InnerXml for this. But InnerXml discards all whitespace between two XML elements when there is only whitespace. Meaning the fragement above is as InnerXml not what you see above - instead it is:

<template><name>ABC</name><version>1</version>
  ABC
  DEF
  <author />
  ABC

How can I get the content of a XmlNode without the discarded whitespace? It must be somewhere in the XmlDocument because when saving it with Save it will output like loaded (meaning like the first example).

Upvotes: 1

Views: 912

Answers (1)

Jason Williams
Jason Williams

Reputation: 57902

Unless I'm missing something, you can just ask the XMlDocument to PreserveWhitespace and you should get "WYSIWYG" loading/saving.

Upvotes: 4

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