I'm trying to preserve the newline characters in my transformed XML
(read from a file) to provide a meaningful line number when validation
errors occur. However, my current method which performs an XSL
transform prior to validation is removing all the newlines. The XSL is
simply adding a namespace:


   <xsl:stylesheet
     xmlns:xsl=3D"http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
     version=3D"1.0"
     xmlns=3D"urn:RegisteredUser-schema">

      <!-- This will just set the namespace of the topmost object -->
      <xsl:template match=3D"*">
        <xsl:element name=3D"{local-name()}">
          <xsl:apply-templates select=3D"@* | node()" />
        </xsl:element>
      </xsl:template>

      <xsl:template match=3D"@*">
        <xsl:copy-of select=3D"." />
      </xsl:template>

   </xsl:stylesheet>

The problem is that an input XML string which has newlines goes from:


   <user>
     <firstname>Joe</firstname>
     <lastname>User</lastname>
   </user>


to a string without newlines:


   <user
xmlns=3D"urn:RegisteredUserschema"><firstname>Joe</firstname><lastname>User=
</=ADlastname></user>



So any subsequent validation failure states that an error occurred on
line 1.  I would like to be able to preserve the newlines in the
original string representation of the file, so that the error message
displayed to the user is meaningful.=20


Thanks in advance