Newline before XML element is lost when reading JATS XML #72
Description
REPO STEPS:
With the following article.xml:
<article>
<front>
<article-meta>
<title-group>
<article-title>Newline before XML element test</article-title>
</title-group>
</article-meta>
</front>
<body>
<p>Lines
before
<ext-link ext-link-type="uri" xlink:href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XML">XML</ext-link> element.</p>
</body>
</article>
run
jats convert --frontmatter page article.xml
GOT:
A article.myst.json file with:
{
"mdast": {
"type": "root",
"children": [
{
"type": "block",
"data": {},
"children": [
{
"type": "paragraph",
"children": [
{
"type": "text",
"value": "Lines\n before"
},
{
"type": "link",
"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XML",
"children": [
{
"type": "text",
"value": "XML"
}
]
},
{
"type": "text",
"value": " element."
}
]
}
]
}
]
},
"frontmatter": {
"title": "Newline before XML element test",
"abbreviations": {}
}
}
EXPECTED:
The "value": "Lines\n before" to have a newline character \n after before.
IMPACT:
Information is lost. The XML has whitespace between the word "before" and the ext-link XML element, but the output JSON has lost that information. When this article.myst.json is used to generate a webpage using the myst CLI (mystmd) the HTML hyperlink is stuck right next to the text "before" without any whitespace.
VERSION:
$ jats -v
v1.0.18