Thank you for the prompt response.

the Unix "\n" appearing inside the comment block or outside? Inside

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I am running on Windows XP.

My original file comment was:

<!—\r\n

comment\r\n

à\r\n

After the file got nodes added (so it was rewritten) through xmltask, the comment showed as:

<!—\n

comment\n

à\r\n

All the other lines have \r\n as end-of-line

I noticed that the one causing this, was the attribute “outputter”.

This problem happens when outputter is unassigned or it is outputter=”default”.

After I set out outputter="simple:4" or outputter=”simple”, the line-endings are all OK (\r\n).

BUG:  the default outputter is not handling the end-of-line for comments according to the OS.

So the following xmltask is working now:

            <xmltask source="${tmp.dir}/ehcache-config.xml"

                     dest="${tmp.dir}/ehcache-config.xml" encoding="UTF-8" outputter="simple:4">

                <paste path="//cache[last()]" buffer="mergeXml" position="after"/>

            </xmltask>

Hi Gisella,

You can probably run the fixcrlf ant task to correct this, info for 1.7 is here: http://ant.apache.org/manual/Tasks/fixcrlf.html

Which platform did you run the Xmltask on? 

Also, are the Unix "\n" appearing inside the comment block or outside?

For example:

<! -- this is a comment \n
-->

   Mark Coffin
   mcoffin-QV2pfSCQszLMohDmgNdYFA@public.gmane.org
   Phone: 905.632.0864
   1.800.668.8486
   Fax: 905.632.2605
   www.aalsolutions.com

From: Saavedra, Gisella [mailto:gsaavedra-RVXiXJpdclUAvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org]
Sent: Thursday, September 02, 2010 6:46 PM
To: xmltask-users-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org
Subject: [Xmltask-users] XML comment line end-of-line

I have two XML files.  I am merging data from file 2 into file 1.

In file 1, I have some comments, written in the traditional way( <!--  comment  -->)

When I execute the xmltask, any nodes inserted in my destination file are OK, although the whole XML contents is rewritten (I could see the non-wrapping for each node).

 But the original comments get  the original “\r\n” end -of -line  replaced with  “\n” as per UNIX.  All the nodes I added get added with “\r\n” as the end-of-line.

So, I get all the end of lines as “\r\n” (Windows)  but my comment lines have “\n” (UNIX)

Is this a bug?

What can I do?

Thanks,

Gisella

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Comments in XML

The syntax for writing comments in XML is similar to that of HTML.

<!-- This is a comment -->

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