no longer remove newlines from xml strin in parseString()

diff --git a/geni/util/rspec.py b/geni/util/rspec.py
index b4c339b..cad6a4e 100644 (file)
--- a/geni/util/rspec.py
+++ b/geni/util/rspec.py
@@ -129,7 +129,7 @@ class Rspec():
         """
         read an xml string and store it as a dom object.
         """
-        xml = xml.replace('\n', '').replace('\t', '').strip()
+        #xml = xml.replace('\n', '').replace('\t', '').strip()
         dom = minidom.parseString(xml)
         self.rootNode = dom.childNodes[0]