Re: question about importing plain text

I'm not sure to understand.

If you type some XML in the source view and expect it to be stored as is 
(same newlines, same indentation, same character entities, etc, in a 
nutshell, same physical representation) in the XML file then saved by 
XXE, well, this is definitely not possible.

This is somewhat explained in this message:
https://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg12095.html




On 3/11/20 2:36 PM, Grundtvig Nielsen Niels wrote:
> 
> When rescuing content from other formats, I often find it easiest to 
> prepare a plain-text file, add DITA tags and then paste the content into 
> the XML source view of a topic. Fairly often, what looks like clean XML 
> source with no extra spaces appears in the DITA topic view with empty 
> <text> elements. Going back to XML source view shows the lines have been 
> wrapped, with a space inserted between the end of one element and the 
> beginning of the next: for example,
> 
> lorem ipsum.</p> <p>Dolor sit amet
> 
> where the XML file in the external editor had
> 
> lorem ipsum.</p>
> 
> <p>Dolor sit amet
> 
> Is this an artefact of line-end settings? It would save quite a lot of 
> time and inconvenience if pasted text rendered the way I’ve just seen it 
> in the editor. fwiw, I usually work with Unix LF, LTF-8.
> 

Let's suppose your pair of <p> is contained in a DITA <section> 
(http://docs.oasis-open.org/dita/dita/v1.3/errata02/os/complete/part2-tech-content/langRef/base/section.html#section).

A DITA <section> may contain text and unlike, say a <pre>, whitespace is 
not significant there. This implies that XXE is legit to convert the 
newline char (and any other indentation whitespace) separating your 2 
<p>s to just a single space char.





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