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Asked: 2026-05-16T10:31:31+00:00

I have an XML element that looks something like this: <content locale=en> </content> The

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I have an XML element that looks something like this:

<content locale="en"> </content>

The text between the bracketed stuff consists of a single space character. When I load the XML into an XmlDocument look at the XmlElement object for the above element, I expect:

contentElement.InnerText.Length == 1; // InnerText should be a single space character

but instead what I get is

contentElement.InnerText.Length == 0;

Assuming this is not a bug in Microsoft’s DOM implementation, is this a feature of the XML/DOM specification I’m not aware of? If so, do I have any options but to add escaped whitespace characters when the XML is written out?

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  1. Editorial Team

    If you want to have whitespace preserved inside of your XML file after being parsed please consider using <![CDATA[ and ]]> section to let parser know that it should take this character data literally…

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