retaining leading whitespace in text of an xml node

[Steve Richter]

when I run the following code the leading spaces of the "data" node
are removed. How do I retain whitespace?
private void CreateBasicXmlDocument()
{
XmlWriterSettings writeSettings = new XmlWriterSettings();
writeSettings.Indent = true;

XmlWriter writer = XmlWriter.Create( filePath, writeSettings );

writer.WriteStartElement("data");
writer.WriteWhitespace(" ");
writer.WriteValue(" data with leading space");
writer.WriteEndElement();
writer.Close();
}

[Bjoern Hoehrmann]

* Steve Richter wrote in microsoft.public.dotnet.xml:

>when I run the following code the leading spaces of the "data" node
are removed. How do I retain whitespace?

private void CreateBasicXmlDocument()
{
XmlWriterSettings writeSettings = new XmlWriterSettings();
writeSettings.Indent = true;

XmlWriter writer = XmlWriter.Create( filePath, writeSettings );

writer.WriteStartElement("data");
writer.WriteWhitespace(" ");
writer.WriteValue(" data with leading space");
writer.WriteEndElement();
writer.Close();
}

How do you expect the writer to know when your white space is and is not
significant to you? It needs to know because you are asking it to indent
your content, which necessarily implies changes in the amount of white
space. If you turn automatic formatting off, your white space should be
preserved.
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