New line character handling in Jsoup

Question

When parsing html with JSoup if there is a new line character in a string of text it treats it as if it is not there. Consider: This string of text will wrap here because of a new line character. But when JSoup parses this string it returns This string of text will wraphere because of a new line character. Note that the newline character does not even become a space. I just want it to be returned with a space. This is the text within a node. I have seen other solutions on stackoverflow where people want or don't want a line break after a tag. That is not what I want. I simply want to know if I can modify the parse function to return not ignore new line characters.

Answer 1

I figured it out. I made a mistake in getting the html from the url. I was using this method:

public static String getUrl(String url) {
    URL urlObj = null;
    try{
        urlObj = new URL(url);
    }
    catch(MalformedURLException e) {
        System.out.println("The url was malformed!");
        return "";
    }
    URLConnection urlCon = null;
    BufferedReader in = null;
    String outputText = "";
    try{
        urlCon = urlObj.openConnection();
        in = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(urlCon.getInputStream()));
        String line = "";
        while((line = in.readLine()) != null){
            outputText += line;
        }
        in.close();
    }
    catch(IOException e){
        System.out.println("There was an error connecting to the URL");
        return "no";
        }
    return outputText;
}

When I should have been using the following:

public static String getUrl(String url) {
    URL urlObj = null;
    try{
        urlObj = new URL(url);
    }
    catch(MalformedURLException e) {
        System.out.println("The url was malformed!");
        return "";
    }
    URLConnection urlCon = null;
    BufferedReader in = null;
    String outputText = "";
    try{
        urlCon = urlObj.openConnection();
        in = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(urlCon.getInputStream()));
        String line = "";
        while((line = in.readLine()) != null){
            outputText += line + "/n";
        }
        in.close();
    }
    catch(IOException e){
        System.out.println("There was an error connecting to the URL");
        return "no";
        }
    return outputText;
}

The problem had nothing to do with JSoup. I thought I would make note of it here since I copied this code from Instant Web Scraping with Java by Ryan Mitchell and anyone else following this tutorial might have this same issue.