in reply to XML::Simple bug? aka I want the whitespace dude!

My reading of the source confirms that completely empty node content is discarded. This comment precedes the collapse method:

# This routine cuts down the noise by discarding any text
# content consisting of only whitespace ...

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There does not appear to be a way to turn this off.

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