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XmlDocument don't save white spaces between tags

Part of XML:

<text:p>text1 <text:span>text2</text:span> <text:span>text3</text:span>text4</text:p>

You can see a space between text:span tags with text2 and text3. When I call XmlDocument.Load method I have this picture:

<text:p>text1 <text:span>text2</text:span><text:span>text3</text:span>text4</text:p>

White space was removed, but I need this space in this place. Set property "PreserveWhitespace = true" don't help

Solution

  • PreserveWhitespace works for me. My sample code is 

        string xml = "<root><p>text1 <span>text2</span> <span>text3</span>text4</p></root>";
    XmlDocument doc = new XmlDocument();
    doc.PreserveWhitespace = true;
    doc.LoadXml(xml);

    Console.Write(doc.InnerXml);

    This prints 

    <root><p>text1 <span>text2</span> <span>text3</span>text4</p></root>

    with the space between the span elements still there.