dear monks, after having found a lot of helpful information around the monastery, i just decided to join in here.
well, there is one thing i just came across and i'm really not sure if this is meant to be like this or if i am doing something wrong.

what i try to do is to write out some (also) human readable xml. this happens while i process/parse a stream of data, so i don't want to build up the whole xml structure (in a hash) and write it all out at once but do writes sequentially while data portions are processed.
to me, XML::Writer seems jsut to offer what i'm looking for.
since the output should be human readable and not come out as one long single line, i use the 'NEWLINES' arg on creation of my XML::Writer object.
somehow, the output is not quite as i expected; here is some sample: 
use strict;
use XML::Writer;
use IO::File;

my $output = new IO::File(">testout.xml");

my $writer = new XML::Writer(OUTPUT => $output, NEWLINES => 1);
$writer->xmlDecl();
$writer->startTag("rootnode", "xmlns" => "my:name:space", "version" =>
+ "1", "creator" => "anti");
$writer->emptyTag("emptynode", "value" => "abc");
$writer->startTag("node", "name" => "foo");
$writer->characters("Hello, world!");
$writer->endTag("node");
$writer->endTag("rootnode");
$writer->end();
$output->close();

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in the putput-file (testout.xml) i find after running the above: 
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<rootnode xmlns="my:name:space" version="1" creator="anti"
><emptynode value="abc"
 /><node name="foo"
>Hello, world!</node
></rootnode
>

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but i would prefer this to look like: 
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<rootnode xmlns="my:name:space" version="1" creator="anti">
 <emptynode value="abc" />
 <node name="foo">
  Hello, world!
 </node>
</rootnode>

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indenting is useful but not as important as getting the lines wrapped nicely.
any ideas or suggestions?

thanks a lot in advance -- greetings, anti

edit: i'm using XML::Writer version 0.604; should be the latest...

In reply to newline behaviour with XML::Writer by antiplex

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