Thanks Myriam,

I ended up using an identity transform to do this.

Thanks for your help.

Nick

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Myriam_Midy@xxxxxxxxx [mailto:Myriam_Midy@xxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: 02 April 2001 19:06
> To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Cc: xalan-dev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re:  Xalan question: XML to String
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> 
> Hi Nick,
> You should probably ask xalan specific questions on the 
> xalan-dev list.
> You'd probably get faster response there 
> (xalan-dev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx). I'm
> cc-ing the answer there.
> 
> Which version of xalan are you using? If you are using 
> xalan2, have you
> tried setting the output properties? If not, please take a look at the
> documentation at the following link and try that and see if that would
> help.
>  http://xml.apache.org/xalan-j/usagepatterns.html#outputprops
> 
> Myriam
> 
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> Hi,
> 
> Sorry this is a bit specific (poss. off topic?), but I am at 
> a bit of a
> loss.
> 
> Is there any way that you can get Xalan/Xerces to give you a 
> nice simple
> indented view of the DOM tree in a String?
> 
> I tried the XMLSerializer, but unfrotunately it makes a bit 
> of a mess of
> anythign even approaching large:
> 
> "For elements that are not specified as whitespace preserving, the
> serializer will potentially break long text lines at space boundaries,
> indent lines, and serialize elements on separate lines. Line 
> terminators
> will be regarded as spaces, and spaces at beginning of line will be
> stripped. "
> 
> Which basically, as far as I read it, means "We reserve the 
> right to ruin
> all of your formatting"
> 
> Any help is much appreciated,
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Nick
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