JSP Document/JSPX: what determines how space/linebreaks are removed in the output?

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Published on 2010-05-29T12:48:17Z Indexed on 2010/05/29 12:52 UTC
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I've got a "JSP Document" ("JSP in XML") nicely formatted and when the webpage is generated and sent to the user, some linebreaks are removed.

Now the really weird part: apparently the "main" .jsp always gets all its linebreak removed but for any subsequent .jsp included from the main .jsp, linebreaks seems to be randomly removed (some are there, others aren't).

For example, if I'm looking at the webpage served from Firefox and ask to "view source", I get to see what is generated.

So, what determines when/how linebreaks are kept/removed?

This is just an example I made up... Can you force a .jsp to serve this:

<body><div id="page"><div id="header"><div class="title">...

or this:

<body>
  <div id="page">
    <div id="header">
      <div class="title">...

?

I take it that linebreaks are removed to save on bandwidth, but what if I want to keep them? And what if I want to keep the same XML indentation as in my .jsp file?

Is this doable?

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