[jboss-user] [JBoss jBPM] - whitespace stripping and newline removal from scripts (or an

[bdumon]

Hi,

I've noticed that jBPM trims whitespace and removes newlines from scripts (or any action/delegation XML config).

With scripts, this can be a bit annoying for multiple reasons:
 - since there are no separate lines anymore, it makes error reporting by the script engine less readable
 - the meaning of things might be changed, e.g. a string like "   abc     def" will become " abc def".
 - single-line comments using "//" are not possible.

I've tracked the cause of this down to the creation of the class Delegation, where an XMLWriter is instantiated using "createCompactFormat" to create the serialized configuration:

XMLWriter xmlWriter = new XMLWriter( stringWriter, OutputFormat.createCompactFormat() );

I don't know if removal of the compact format usage would cause any issues (e.g. other places relying on the whitespace being removed) besides a little bit more whitespace stored in the database, but otherwise I would very much appreciate if it could be removed. Or maybe some attribute could be added to the action element to indicate the whitespace-treatment preference.

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