"Joe Fawcett" <joefawcett@n...> wrote in message 
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> "Adam Badura" <adam@h...> wrote in message 
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>>    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.
>
> -- 
>
> Joe Fawcett (MVP - XML)
>
> http://joe.fawcett.name


Do you know what the relevant standard is? I assume it is a RFC.

It seems very strange that the standard be a single linefeed. I know that 
the standard for email is clearly that a carriage return and linefeed 
combination be used; lines ending in just a linefeed is very non-standard 
for email.