Yes, option A is possible. 

 MODS Editorial Committee is now considering specific changes for version 3.6 and this one can be added to the list for consideration.

Ray

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> [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Vicky Phillips
> Sent: Friday, July 11, 2014 4:31 AM
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> Subject: Re: [MODS] Losing whitespace from nonSort element
> 
> Thank you all for such a quick response.  I have added xml:space="preserve"
> as suggested by Thomas and this seems to fix the problem.  However it is not
> a valid attribute within nonSort element in MODS.
> 
> Kevin here is the details of what we use to format the XML… This is the class
> we use to format the XML:
> 
> http://www.jdom.org/docs/apidocs.1.1/org/jdom/output/Format.html
> 
> and the code is as follows:
> 
> XMLOutputter tOut = new XMLOutputter(Format.getPrettyFormat());
> pRes.setContentType("text/xml");
> tOut.output(tDoc, pRes.getOutputStream());
> 
> I could not format the XML.
> 
> So it looks like there maybe two possible options here…
> 
> Option A – change xsd in order to allow for attribute xml:space="preserve"
> within nonSort element. Also change MARC to MODS xslt to include this
> attribute in nonSort element when needed.
> 
> Option B – not format xml.  This wouldn’t be ideal for us as we format it a few
> times.
> 
> Is option A possible?
> 
> Many thanks,
> Vicky
> Digital Standards Manager
> National Library of Wales