How to preserve newlines when formatting XML

[huijzer]

Hi,

When I format my XML files, empty lines are removed. Is there a way to prevent this form happening. The empty lines are there for readability

Before:

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

<test>

    <node><a/></node>

    

    <node><b/></node>

</test>

After:

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

<test>

    <node>

        <a/>

    </node>

    <node>

        <b/>

    </node>

</test>

What I would like:

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

<test>

    <node>

        <a/>

    </node>



    <node>

        <b/>

    </node>

</test>

Is this possible?

Thanks in advance for any help!

Arjan Huijzer

[george]

Hi,

You can achieve that if you set the spaces to be preserved for the test element and to be stripped for the node element. You can set the preserve/strip spaces state for a node either using the xml:space attribute with the preserve and default as values or by adding the element name to the preserve or strip spaces element lists from Options->Preferences -- Editor / Format dialog.

Best Regards,
George