New lines in XML process definitions

[davidperez]

I have this snippet of my process definition:

<process-definition xmlns="urn:jbpm.org:jpdl-3.3" name="">
 <start-state>
 <transition to="trabajar"/>
 </start-state>
 <node name="trabajar">
 <action config-type="bean" class="com.jobisjob.crawler.action.GoToUrlAction">
 <myProperty>line 1
line 2</myProperty>
 </action>
 <transition to="Bolsa"/>
 </node>

The problem is that for carriage return is not preserved, and this property can be multiline.

Is there any known workaround for this bug?
Should I open a bug?
Thanks in advance for any tip.

[salaboy21]

this is not a bug..
is like an standard behavior of the xml parser libraries...
try using some encoded character to do that.. like \n..
This also depends on where do you wanna see this line break..

[kukeltje]

or e.g. wrap it in a cdata section

[davidperez]

Thanks for your suggestion, but how do I control that?
My idea is to replace \n by #&10;, as the data that has embedded newlines is a XSLT style sheet.

"kukeltje" wrote:
or e.g. wrap it in a cdata section

[davidperez]

Not so standard behaviour, newlines are regular characters for XML.
The only special ones are:

&, <, >, =, ", '

"salaboy21" wrote:
this is not a bug..
is like an standard behavior of the xml parser libraries...
try using some encoded character to do that.. like \n..
This also depends on where do you wanna see this line break..

[kukeltje]

hmmm.... multiline properties... why not do

<myProperties>
 <myProperty>Line1</myProperty>
 <myProperty>Line2</myProperty>
</myProperties>

Much neater..

cdata: http://www.w3schools.com/XML/xml_cdata.asp (not sure if it works, just a suggestion

[salaboy21]

Are you saying that reading all the content in the tag, not in two separate lines is not standard? please check at DOM, SAX and Xerces implementation for that..
I don't really know about that.. but I take it as a regular behavior...
I think that is not a jBPM problem....
Hope it helps