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Main Board => Discussions => Programming => Topic started by: Loren Doornek on March 05, 2020, 09:10:25 AM
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In parsing xml using the XML() functionality, I've found that multiple spaces are consolidated into a single space, as shown in the following example, where the multiple spaces result in the single space within the string after using the XML function:
-}xml$="abc 123",ofst=0;x$=xml(next from xml$,ind=ofst,key=name$);?x$
abc 123
Researching this, I see that it is fairly standard for XML parsers to consolidate white space. But, in some cases, we need to keep that white space (eg: a user entered a value that comes through the xml, and we need to match based on that value).
Is there any way to tell the XML() command to *NOT* consolidate the white space?
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Generally in XML if you want to maintain white space or other special characters you use CDATA.
For Example:
->xml$="<text><![CDATA[lots of spaces]]></text>"
->x$=xml(next from xml$,ind=ofst,key=name$);?x$
lots of spaces
->?name$
text$
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Thanks, Mike!