<source> with only spaces are emptied on deserialization about xliff2-object-model HOT 6 CLOSED

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Upon further examination of the issue, this is by design. If you declare xml:space="preserve" then you will get the expected output. Perhaps you are expecting the default "processing mode" of the OM to be to preserve whitespace? In which case, this is not a bug but a design change.

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To clarify a bit more: this is the default behavior of the OM because it is based on .Net XmlReader/Writer which does not preserve by default.

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Looking more closely at the XML specification, I have to agree: default means the reader does whatever it wants. I had read it as: "The reader can normalize or preserve". But it seems that complete deletion is valid too.

So it's not a bug.

But I would change this as a request for a change in behavior. While remove spaces on outer content is fine, it seems that completely removing spaces in elements that are content like <source> and <target> is probably unwise. I would expect to either normalize or preserve whitespace there.

I'll also post a not to answer your email in the XLIFF list.

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Fixed with the following commits
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