JAXB unmarshal deletes newline

Question

I have a string with newlines in an attribute parameter :

<rule-parameter formattingMethod="NO_FORMATTING_METHOD" type="String" value="Hello,      
My name is luba.   
How are you?"/>

When I unmarshal this xml the object that I get for this property the string is in one line.

What should I do so the java property will also have newline in the string ?

Try to put the text in CDATA or maybe
elements. Take a look on this thread: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2986297/line-break-in-xml — Balint Bako, Jun 20 '13 at 14:06

score 3 · Answer 1 · answered Jun 20 '13 at 14:48

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An XML parser (including JAXB) will not preserve a newline in an XML attribute.

You will need to move this content to an XML element instead.

answered Jun 20 '13 at 14:48

bdoughan

The linked section does not mention anything about not preserving newlines. It only specifies that multiple carriage return (+ line feed) characters are normalized to a single line feed character. – supik Aug 27 '18 at 14:16

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