A solution for this seems to be to replace the StringTokenizer by
BufferedReader(StringReader(event.getMessage())). Do you want me to
come up with a patch?

Stefan

--- Stefan Moebius <stmoebius@yahoo.com> wrote:
> > Another strange thing -- your original <echo> task does result in
> an
> > empty line in the middle in 1.5 if you include the -emacs
> command-line
> > flag:
> 
> Ok, I had a look a
> org.apache.tools.ant.DefaultLogger.messageLogged():
> If -emacs mode is off, a StringTokenizer is used to split the message
> into lines. The tokenizer does not return delimiters, which is why 
> <echo>
>   Some text${line.separator}
> 
>   Some more text.
> </echo>
> 
> does not get you an empty line. Likewise,
> 
> <echo>
>   Some text
> ${line.separator}
>   Some more text.
> </echo>
> 
> does not print the empty line, because the line contains only
> "\n\r\n\r" which is skipped by the tokenizer. On the other hand
> 
>  ${line.separator}
> 
> results in " \n\r\n\r" and the tokenizer returns the space (" ") and
> you get the empty line.
> 
> In -emacs mode, the message passed to messageLogged() is simply
> output.
> 
> Conclusion:
> The XML parser does not influence the output of the empty line, the
> only thing you need is the whitespace in that line, since most
> editors
> remove lonely spaces at line ends, you need something to protect the
> space that doesn't print. ${line.separator} or 
 do the job.
> 
> Probably a better solution would be to change DefaultLogger to also
> print empty lines?
> 
> Stefan
> 
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