Railo Whitespace Management

A little while ago a reader sent me a message asking me if I had any problems with whitespace and carriage returns on BlogCFC under Railo.

The answer was "yes, sort of". If you use whitespace management in Railo you need to be aware that they aren't kidding around. They manage your whitespace alright! I'm guessing they do the following.

1. Extra carriage returns are removed.(e.g. blank lines)
2. A Trim on the remaining lines is performed

The consequences of doing this is that all code formatting is gone (tabs, indentations etc), and all extra carriage returns are removed. The problem with this is that it's done on everything, including user generated content (e.g textarea). So in BlogCFC all the carriage returns and shot my formatting unless I typed in p and br tags.

So if you use whitespace management be aware of this feature.