On 9/13/06, Jason Hunter <jhunter@(protected):
> I'd recommend xmlOutputter.outputString(mainelement.getContent()).

This won't satisfy the OP's goal of mainting the original formatting, will it?

Other than recommending that the requirement to keep the original
formatting be reconsidered, I would think that regular text
manipulation using things like String::indexOf() and
String::substring() might be the best bet. It doesn't sound like DOM
is the tool for this job.

- J.
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