Whitespaces Preferences

Oxygen XML Editor lets you configure which Unicode space characters are treated as space characters when normalizing whitespace in XML documents. To configure the Whitespace preferences, open the Preferences dialog box and go to Editor > Format > XML > Whitespaces.

This table lists the Unicode whitespace characters. Check any that you want to have treated as whitespace when formatting and indenting an XML document.

The whitespaces are normalized when:

The Format and Indent action is applied on an XML document.
You switch from Text mode to Author mode.
You switch from Author mode to Text mode.

The characters with the codes 9 (TAB), 10 (LF), 13 (CR) and 32 (SPACE) are always considered to be whitespace characters and cannot be deselected.