textarea formatting

I've got some indented xml that I paste into a textarea. it get
persisted. When I go back to the textarea to edit again, all of the
newlines are skipped.
I normally fix this issue in other webapps by replacing all of the
newlines with <br/> but I don't seem to be able to do that here as it
is no longer valid xml at that point, and escaping them just shows
them. Without using the html editor, how do I format the output to a
textarea control?


thanks


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the data is stored as an attribute

On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 7:08 AM, Jeremiah Jahn <[hidden email]> wrote:

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On Sep 16, 2009, at 6:14 AM, Jeremiah Jahn wrote:

> the data is stored as an attribute


There you go: newline characters can't be stored in an attribute. You  
will need to use an element for this. This is done through a process  
called "Attribute-Value Normalization". You can read more about it in  
the XML spec:

http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml/#AVNormalize

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