<![CDATA] ]]> replaces new line in source files

[Jim]

When converting HTML files over to XML with Flare, MadCap is replacing some of my new lines with <![CDATA] ]]> tags. In most cases, I don't mind, but many of these occurrences are code samples where new lines are required. Is there any way to work around this issue?

Original HTML:

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<span class="highlight-comment">// Initialize a new engine.</span>
<span class="highlight-keyword">using</span> (Engine newEngine = <span class="highlight-keyword">new</span> Engine())

Result:
// Initialize a new engine.
using (Engine newEngine = new Engine())

Converted MadCap code:

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<span class="highlight-comment">// Initialize a new engine.</span> <![CDATA[ ]]><span class="highlight-keyword">using</span> (Engine newEngine = <span class="highlight-keyword">new</span> Engine())

Result:
// Initialize a new engine. using (Engine newEngine = new Engine())

I'd like to avoid a search-replace answer, since we're talking about thousands of files here. Also, in some instances, the <![CDATA] ]] automatically inserted by MadCap replaces a space (as mentioned in other posts on this forum), so I don't actually want a new line in those instances.

[SteveS]

If you need to bring text formatted in a specific way, usually with extra returns or whitespace, use the <pre> tag.

There are a couple of threads on the forum about this:
http://forums.madcapsoftware.com/viewto ... =6&t=13346
http://forums.madcapsoftware.com/viewto ... =6&t=13800

There are a few more...

HTH

[Jim]

hm, interesting...our original source files already have <pre> tags.

A little bit about our setup:
Our code is automatically generated by a secondary application (Sandcastle), and then we import the resulting HTML files into MadCap. Is there any reason why MadCap would ignore the <pre> tags? As you'll see below, despite <pre>, MadCap removes the new line and replaces with <![CDATA] ]]>.

Original code (as outputted by Sandcastle):

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<div class="code"><pre xml:space="preserve"><span class="highlight-keyword">public</span> <span class="highlight-keyword">void</span> Demo()
{
   <span class="highlight-comment">// Initialize a new engine.</span>
   <span class="highlight-keyword">using</span> (Engine newEngine = <span class="highlight-keyword">new</span> Engine())
       // More code goes here.
}</pre></div>

MadCap's conversion:

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<div class="code"><pre><span class="highlight-keyword">public</span><![CDATA[ ]]><![CDATA[ ]]><span class="highlight-keyword">void</span> Demo()
{
   <span class="highlight-comment">// Initialize a new engine.</span><![CDATA[ ]]><span class="highlight-keyword">using</span> (Engine newEngine = <span class="highlight-keyword">new</span> Engine())
   // More code goes here.
}</pre></div>

Thanks for the response!

[SteveS]

Beats me, I'm afraid...