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Bug 602918 - xmllint --format does not respect xml:space
xmllint --format does not respect xml:space
Status: RESOLVED OBSOLETE
Product: libxml2
Classification: Platform
Component: general
2.7.3
Other Linux
: Normal normal
: ---
Assigned To: Daniel Veillard
libxml QA maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2009-11-25 11:04 UTC by sf
Modified: 2021-07-05 13:21 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: ---


Description sf 2009-11-25 11:04:14 UTC 
If whitespace is marked as significant with xml:space="preserve" then it should be preserved even when reformatting. But this is not the case.

Steps to Reproduce:

Save following as a.xml

<a>
  <b xml:space="preserve"><c/></b>
  <b xml:space="default"><c/></b>
</a> 

Run xmllint --format a.xml

Actual Results:

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<a>
  <b xml:space="preserve">
    <c/>
  </b>
  <b xml:space="default">
    <c/>
  </b>
</a>

Expected Results:

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<a>
  <b xml:space="preserve"><c/></b>
  <b xml:space="default">
    <c/>
  </b>
</a>

Version 2.7.3:

xmllint: using libxml version 20703
   compiled with: Threads Tree Output Push Reader Patterns Writer SAXv1 FTP HTTP DTDValid HTML Legacy C14N Catalog XPath XPointer XInclude Iconv ISO8859X Unicode Regexps Automata Expr Schemas Schematron Modules Debug Zlib


Reference: http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml/#sec-white-space
Comment 1 sf 2010-05-12 08:14:40 UTC 
Same result in version 2.7.7.

xmllint: using libxml version 20707
   compiled with: Threads Tree Output Push Reader Patterns Writer SAXv1 FTP HTTP DTDValid HTML Legacy C14N Catalog XPath XPointer XInclude Iconv ISO8859X Unicode Regexps Automata Expr Schemas Schematron Modules Debug Zlib
Comment 2 GNOME Infrastructure Team 2021-07-05 13:21:59 UTC 
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