PreserveWhiteSpace not preserving all whitespace

[Fergus Mcgee]

I'm using C# and .NET 2

I am creating an XmlDocument object and setting PreserveWhiteSpace to True,
I use loadXMl to load XML from a file but when I look at the XML of the document object some of the whitespace has been stripped.

I need to EXACTLY maintain the original formatting of the file.

I want to use an XMLDocument as I need to query it using XPath and amend and add nodes.

Here is the original XML ...

<El1>
  <El2>
    <MCG 
      class="UnionCodeGroup" 
      version="1" 
      PermissionSet="Full">
      <MemberShip 
        class="MembershipClass" 
        version="1" 
        Url="http://www.thescripts.com/"
      />
    </MCG>
  <El2>
</El1>

After I load it into the document it looks like this ...

<El1>
  <El2>
    <MCG class="UnionCodeGroup" version="1" PermissionSet="Full">
      <MemberShip class="MembershipClass" version="1" Url="http://www.thescripts.com/"/>
    </MCG>
  <El2>
</El1>

I know that it shouldn't make any difference as they are functionally the same but the 3rd party application that uses this file does requirte the formatting to be maintained (the attributes must be on different lines)

Any help on how I can preserve the original whitespace completely would be very welcome.

Thanks

[dorinbogdan]

Welcome to TheScripts TSDN...

I'm afraid that the only solution to preserve exactly the text format is to open/edit the XML as simple text file.
The XMLDocument object seems to ignore spaces/new lines inside of < > tags.

[Fergus Mcgee]

Thanks for the reply. I suspected that was the case. I was trying to avoid treating it as a simple text file but feared it was the only solution.

Fergus