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XML Transform using indent creates empty (whitespaces) lines

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      ADDITIONAL SYSTEM INFORMATION :
      Test on macOS (but I guess is for all OS).

      Tested with:
      Oracle 1.8.0_281-b09 - OK
      AdoptOpenJDK 1.8.0_282-b08 - OK
      OpenJDK 9.0.4+11 - FAIL
      OpenJDK 10.0.2+13 - FAIL
      OpenJDK 11.0.2+9 - FAIL
      AdoptOpenJDK 11.0.10+9 - FAIL
      OpenJDK 12.0.2+10 - FAIL
      OpenJDK 13.0.2+8 - FAIL
      OpenJDK 14.0.2+12-46 - FAIL
      OpenJDK 15.0.2+7-27 - FAIL
      OpenJDK 16+36-2231 - FAIL
      OpenJDK 17-ea+9-653 - FAIL

      A DESCRIPTION OF THE PROBLEM :
      There is a change in behavior of the XML Transformer indentation that we saw trying to upgrade from JDK 8 to 11.

      It seems that after a transformation is applied the Text Nodes with spaces are put in a separated line producing a result where a "blank" line is interleaved on each line between Element Nodes.
      This "blank" line contains the characters used for indentation of the node following it plus a newline.

      This is noticeable even without making modifications to the input XML before the transformation.
      If another transformations is executed over the output then a new "blank" line is added to the already previously added between actual Element Nodes.

      There are multiple reports online of this behavior (like https://stackoverflow.com/q/58478632) but couldn't find something on the bugs DB. I think that the closest/related ones could be:
      https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8230083
      https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8223291

      REGRESSION : Last worked in version 8u281

      STEPS TO FOLLOW TO REPRODUCE THE PROBLEM :
      Compile and run the provided example with JDK 8 and JDK 11 (or any other 9+).
      See the new lines with only whitespaces (raw output and displaying whitespaces as '·' and tabs as '\t' is provided to better see the issue)

      EXPECTED VERSUS ACTUAL BEHAVIOR :
      EXPECTED -
      $ rm -f *.class; ./oracle/jdk1.8.0_281/Contents/Home/bin/javac XmlBugExample.java; ./oracle/jdk1.8.0_281/Contents/Home/bin/java XmlBugExample

      ###### JAVA VERSION: Oracle Corporation 1.8.0_281-b09

      ###### RESULT:

      <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><users>
      <!-- pre-existing entry BEGIN -->
      <user> <!-- a user -->
      <name>A name</name>
      <email>An email</email>
      </user>
          <!-- pre-existing entry END -->
      </users>


      ###### RESULT SHOWING WHITESPACES:

      <?xml·version="1.0"·encoding="UTF-8"?><users>
      \t<!--·pre-existing·entry·BEGIN·-->
      \t\t····<user>·<!--·a·user·-->
      \t\t········<name>A·name</name>
      \t\t········<email>An·email</email>
      \t\t····</user>
      ····<!--·pre-existing·entry·END·-->
      </users>
      ACTUAL -
      $ rm -f *.class; ./adoptopenjdk/jdk-11.0.10+9/Contents/Home/bin/javac XmlBugExample.java; ./adoptopenjdk/jdk-11.0.10+9/Contents/Home/bin/java XmlBugExample

      ###### JAVA VERSION: AdoptOpenJDK 11.0.10+9

      ###### RESULT:

      <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><users>

          <!-- pre-existing entry BEGIN -->

          <user>

              <!-- a user -->

              <name>A name</name>

              <email>An email</email>

          </user>

          <!-- pre-existing entry END -->

      </users>


      ###### RESULT SHOWING WHITESPACES:

      <?xml·version="1.0"·encoding="UTF-8"?><users>
      ····\t
      ····<!--·pre-existing·entry·BEGIN·-->
      ····\t\t····
      ····<user>
      ·········
      ········<!--·a·user·-->
      ········\t\t········
      ········<name>A·name</name>
      ········\t\t········
      ········<email>An·email</email>
      ········\t\t····
      ····</user>
      ········
      ····<!--·pre-existing·entry·END·-->
      ····
      </users>

      ---------- BEGIN SOURCE ----------
      import java.io.StringReader;
      import java.io.StringWriter;

      import javax.xml.transform.OutputKeys;
      import javax.xml.transform.Source;
      import javax.xml.transform.Transformer;
      import javax.xml.transform.TransformerFactory;
      import javax.xml.transform.stream.StreamResult;
      import javax.xml.transform.stream.StreamSource;

      public class XmlBugExample {

          private static final String S_KEY_INDENT_AMOUNT = "{http://xml.apache.org/xalan}indent-amount";

          public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
              String inputXML = "<?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"UTF-8\" standalone=\"no\"?>\n"
                      + "<users>\n"
                      + "\t<!-- pre-existing entry BEGIN -->\n"
                      + "\t\t <user> <!-- a user -->\n"
                      + "\t\t <name>A name</name>\n"
                      + "\t\t <email>An email</email>\n"
                      + "\t\t </user>\n"
                      + " <!-- pre-existing entry END -->\n"
                      + "</users>";

              Source in = new StreamSource(new StringReader(inputXML));
              StreamResult out = new StreamResult(new StringWriter());

              TransformerFactory transformerFactory = TransformerFactory.newInstance();
              Transformer transformer = transformerFactory.newTransformer();
              transformer.setOutputProperty(OutputKeys.INDENT, "yes");
              transformer.setOutputProperty(S_KEY_INDENT_AMOUNT, "4");
              transformer.transform(in, out);

              String result = out.getWriter().toString();

              System.out.println("\n###### JAVA VERSION: "
                      + System.getProperty("java.vendor") + " "
                      + System.getProperty("java.runtime.version"));
              System.out.println("\n###### RESULT:\n");
              System.out.println(result);
              System.out.println("\n###### RESULT SHOWING WHITESPACES:\n");
              System.out.println(result.replaceAll("\\t", "\\\\t").replaceAll(" ", "\u00B7"));
          }

      }
      ---------- END SOURCE ----------

      FREQUENCY : always


            joehw Joe Wang
            webbuggrp Webbug Group
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