Why Dom4JDriver is appending a newline at the beginning of the xml content?

Question

I am using the XStream library (1.4.10) and the Dom4jDriver to generate xml content from a Java object. The problem is that it appends a new line at the beginning of the content. Anyway to turn this off?

    Dom4JDriver dom4JDriver = new Dom4JDriver();
    dom4JDriver.getOutputFormat().setSuppressDeclaration(true);

    XStream xStream = new XStream(dom4JDriver);
    xStream.processAnnotations(MyClass.class);
    String myContent = xStream.toXML(myClassInstance); //extra '\n' appended at the start of the string

MyClass.class:

@XStreamAlias("myClass")
public class MyClass{

  private String something;

  private String somethingElse;
...........

Generated xml:

\n<myClass>\n <something>blabla</something>\n......

I know that I can just use myContent.subString(...) to get rid of the first character, but it doesnt seem so clean to me. I am also doing this for a lot of operations so I would rather not have that line to begin with for performance's sake. Any advise? Thank you :)

Answer 1

Have you tried DomDriver in place of Dom4JDriver?