Bug #28960 for XML-Twig: XML::Twig and whitespaces in element values and in attribute values

> > Thu Aug 23 10:38:35 2007: Request 28960 was acted upon. > Transaction: Ticket created by yona@cs.technion.ac.il > Queue: XML-Twig > Subject: XML::Twig and whitespaces in element values and in attribute values > Broken in: (no value) > Severity: (no value) > Owner: Nobody > Requestors: yona@cs.technion.ac.il > Status: new > Ticket <URL: http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=28960 > > > > Hello, > > This is the same issue that was reported at > http://www.perlmonks.org/?node_id=634644 > > Here's the issue: > > I'm using XML::Twig and have noticed that it replaces > white-space characters to spaces. Something like s/\s/ /g on > all attribute and element values. > > See example code: > > #!/usr/bin/perl use strict; > use warnings; > use XML::Twig; > my $twig=XML::Twig->new(); > my $xml = qq{<root t="space tab\tnewline\nend"/>}; > $twig->xparse($xml); > my $text=$twig->root->att('t'); > print "|$text|\n"; > > > The expected output (contents of the scalar $text is the > word space followed by a single space character, followed by > the word tab, followed by a single tab character, followed > by the word newline, followed by a single newline character, > and then the word end. > > Instead, the tab and the newline characters were replaced by > a single space character each. > > 1. Why? > 2. How can I force XML::Twig to preserve whitespaces and not > alter the text in any form? > > This relates to XML::Twig 3.29 and XML::Twig 3.30. I did not > check this behavior in other versions of XML::Twig