Reading attribute values with leading spaces

[Neil Sherman <ns...@aimltd.co.uk>]

 Hi all,

I have an attribute value that has leading spaces and I would like to 
maintain those leading spaces when I read in the value, but Xerces seems to 
strip the leading spaces from the string that I get back! i.e.

<XMLTAG attribute="   value"></XMLTAG>

I then obtain this attribute value with:

	string =  attribs.getNamedItem("attribute").getNodeValue().transcode();

But what I get back is:

"value" and NOT "   value"

Is there anyway around this?  The obvious solution is to place a character 
at the front that can then be stripped off, thus retaining the spaces but I 
was wondering if there is a better solution ??

Many thanks

Neil



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