Characters /r/n%20%20 in blank tags?

[Harry Whitehouse]

Hi!

I have a Webservice which returns an XMLDocument type. In viewing the raw
output steam, I noticed that if a tag value is blank, the data stream
actually looks like this:

<MyTag>\r\n </MyTag>.

A CR/LF followed by two spaces.

I have a special client to recieve this stream generally, but when I do
testing just with IE I note that the formating of such blank tag fields is
abbreviated -- perhaps this is something that was purposely designed to make
browser output look clearer.

But my question is this -- can I suppress this behavior?

Best

Harry

[Bjoern Hoehrmann]

* Harry Whitehouse wrote in microsoft.public.dotnet.xml:

>I have a Webservice which returns an XMLDocument type. In viewing the raw
output steam, I noticed that if a tag value is blank, the data stream
actually looks like this:

<MyTag>\r\n </MyTag>.

A CR/LF followed by two spaces.

I have a special client to recieve this stream generally, but when I do
testing just with IE I note that the formating of such blank tag fields is
abbreviated -- perhaps this is something that was purposely designed to make
browser output look clearer.

But my question is this -- can I suppress this behavior?

Adding xml:space='preserve' to the <MyTagelement would probably help,
but I don't think you should worry how IE might render your document,
and if you do, you could make your own XSLT document that transforms it
into HTML (which is what IE does by default).
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