I'm using XML::Twig and have noticed that it replaces white-space characters to spaces. Something like s/\s/ /g on all attribute and element values.

See example code: 

#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use warnings;
use XML::Twig;
my $twig=XML::Twig->new();
my $xml = qq{<root t="space tab\tnewline\nend"/>};
$twig->xparse($xml);
my $text=$twig->root->att('t');
print "|$text|\n";

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The expected output (contents of the scalar $text is the word space followed by a single space character, followed by the word tab, followed by a single tab character, followed by the word newline, followed by a single newline character, and then the word end.

Instead, the tab and the newline characters were replaced by a single space character each.

  1. Why?
  2. How can I force XML::Twig to preserve whitespaces and not alter the text in any form?

This relates to XML::Twig 3.29 and XML::Twig 3.30. I did not check this behavior in other versions of XML::Twig

Thanks.

-- DJpumps

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