129752 - Text copy-paste loses CR LF and whitespace (XMP tag)

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 69792

(Core :: DOM: Serializers, defect)

Description

[ivan dobrianov]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:0.9.8) Gecko/20020204
BuildID:    2002020406

See steps to reproduce. If the URL is not accessible create this HTML file:
===========================================================================
<xmp>
    =Side Effects:None
    =This code is copyrighted and has limited warranties.
    =Please see
http://www.1PerlStreet.com/xq/ASP/txtCodeId.225/lngWId.6/qx/vb/scripts/ShowCode.htm
    =for details.
    =**************************************
    
    #!/usr/local/bin/perl
    $, = ' '; $\ = "\n";

		</xmp>
===========================================================================

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open the URL or the HTML file created from the text between the ==== lines,
using Mozilla.
2. Select the text with the mouse (i.e. left button down, drag from top to
bottom, then ctrl-C)
3. Paste the selection in Notepad
*** It becomes a SINGLE LONG line - all line breaks are lost and some whitespace
is lost too.

Comment 1

[Paul Wyskoczka]

--> qa [e-mail]

Comment 2

[Peter Trudelle]

Isn't XMP a deprecated Microsoft extension?  Not sure who should get this, but
it seems like a minor edge case we don't need to fix for MachV. ->future

Comment 3

[Kathleen :Brade]

-->DOM to Text Conversion

Comment 4

[Valerio Capello]

This is a duplicate of Bug 69792

Comment 5

[Christopher Hoess (gone)]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 69792 ***

Comment 6

[sujay]

verified.