300593 - XML CDATA new lines not viewed correctly

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 226786

(Core :: XML, defect)

Description

[Hosam Aly]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b3) Gecko/20050711 Firefox/1.0+
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b3) Gecko/20050711 Firefox/1.0+

The following XML file should be displayed as-is (the new lines should be
displayed). It is viewed correctly in IE 6, but not in Firefox.


<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>

<root>
<![CDATA[Diagram:
      frobmorten <--------------- fuznaten
        |            <3>             ^
        | <1>                        | <1> = fozzle
        V                            | <2> = framboze 
      staten-------------------------+ <3> = frenzle
               <2>
    ]]>
</root>


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Make an XML file like the one provided in the "Details" section.
2. View it in Firefox.

Actual Results:  
The new lines are not displayed.

Expected Results:  
Look at the file in IE6.

Comment 1

[Kevin Brosnan]

Check to make sure that your web server is sending the xml file as
application/xhtml+xml or application/xml.

Comment 2

[Hosam Aly]

There is no server here. I'm opening it from a file on my local machine.

Comment 3

[Neil Deakin]

It should be displayed using the pretty xml tree thing that shows the dom
structure. Do you mean you want the whitespace to be preserved in that?

If you don't mean that, then this bug is invalid since the default whitespace
handling is inherit/normal not pre.

Comment 4

[Hosam Aly]

Yes, that's what I mean. The whitespaces (including the newline) in a CDATA
section should be preserved (as indicated by the XML specifications).

Comment 5

[Richard Brodie]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 226786 ***