Disappearing spaces ...

[d.brekke]

I'm working on a project where we are updateing from FM7 to FM11. Here I find some strange behavior (or problems ..).  We're extracting xml from a database and importing into FM11 with EDD's/templates to do the formatting.

In this new version, we are losing a lot of spaces, and it seems to be connected to how FM11 is reading what my xml-expert calls "new line characters":  "There is a single new line character after &åttedel; and also after </nevner>, no space and it's correct like that. A new line character and a space (in PCDATA) in XML are 100% equivalent. This is an XML feature, enables XML serializers to line-break the XML without any information loss."

This worked fine in FM7, and we had all our spaces correct in connection with entities and fractions (teller/nevner), - but in FM11 they are gone. I'm using the same EDD's/templates as in FM7, just updated them to correct FM version.

Is this a sort of bug in FM11, have I done something wrong, or is it some trick in converting from FM7 to FM11 that I have missed?

BR

DagB

[Gorly]

You can disable the whitespace stripping in the maker.ini, or by using the proper xml syntax.

Check this link:

http://help.adobe.com/en_US/framemaker/using/WSD7FBA378-86FB-49ad-82EA-CCCFF5CC9524.html#WSfdd6fcd10...

Cheers

Alex

[d.brekke]

Sorry, but that link handles stripping/merging of double/multiple whitespace. That's not my problem. It's the single new line character which does not convert into a single space as it's supposed to do ...

[Gorly]

Would you mind to give an example of what you get and what you should get?

Next question would be, which API client you are using for import.

[d.brekke]

Hi

This might be a related problem, but now I find that [space] [tab] is not changed in the FM11 import of the xml-file, while [tab] [space] is removed all together...  Is this controlled in the maker.ini-file? Or is it a bug in FM11?

When I use FM7 to open the xml-file, it preserves both variants ...