XML and newlines

[Fredrik Lundh]

Hans Nowak wrote:
> Either way, my question is, is there a way to parse the XML
> *and* somehow preserve the newlines in the string?

as Paul pointed out, XML parsers are supposed to normalize
whitespace in attribute values.

if you want non-standard XML behaviour, you have to use
lower-level toolkits.  I suggest building your own DOM builder
based on the sgmlop scanner:

    http://effbot.org/sgmlop.htm

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