"Adam Badura" <adam@h...> wrote in message 
news:E6D1E2C8-16B0-4637-90AC-C9C18979EA85@m......
>    I have pretty formatted XML file like for example
>
> <root>
>    <element></element>
>    <element>spaces         end spaces</element>
>    <element>new line
> end new line</element>
> </root>
>
>    The new lines are written (by MSXML) as \r\n. But after reading them 
> (again with MSXML, preserveWhiteSpaces is set to true) the new lines are 
> changed to \n (all other white spaces are alright, even the number of new 
> lines is correct, only the are marked with \n instead of \r\n).
>    Is there a possibility to have the \r\n preserved? (I cannot just 
> change all \n to \r\n since this would change those \n which where lone \n 
> in the XML file as well.)
>
>    Adam Badura
As far as I know not through the XML interfaces. Changing carriage returns 
and new lines to just new line is part of the XML specification under the 
normalizing space rules.

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