# How to give spaces(gap between lines) for Text while writing to XML nodes
**URL:** https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/t/how-to-give-spaces-gap-between-lines-for-text-while-writing-to-xml-nodes/2163
**Category:** Discussion
**Created:** [June 14, 2013, 2:49am UTC](https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/t/how-to-give-spaces-gap-between-lines-for-text-while-writing-to-xml-nodes/2163 "2013-06-14T02:49:12Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
**Page:** 1
### Author:  [@deleted\_user](https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/u/deleted_user)
#### Post date: [June 14, 2013, 2:49am UTC](https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/t/how-to-give-spaces-gap-between-lines-for-text-while-writing-to-xml-nodes/2163/1 "2013-06-14T02:49:12Z")
Hi All,
We have a task like we need to write text message to existing XML node.
Our XMl is in below format
\
Now what we need to do is we need to write below text b/w lines as it is(with spaces between each line) in the node in
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Hi All,
Welcome to our team.
Regards,
Team
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
For that what we are doing is we are Using **Edit XML File ** Action , we had given correct **XPath** and in the **New Value** we are giving our required text(as mentioned above)
We had tried 3 different options provided there for **New Value** like **Treat new value as text,Preserve white space,insert value as CDATA** but while writing to XML it is writing as below
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
**Hi All,Welcome to our team.Regards,Team**
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Means it is not taking spaces betwenn lines ,but we want it to write as it is to XML.
Please provide some help regarding this.
**One more case :**
We have a varaible %history% which has 4 lines of data.When writing to XML using same steps as above ,that variable value is also not written properly, it is writing as a single line.
Please help us in the two tasks mentioned above.
Thanks
---
### Author:  [@mahendra](https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/u/mahendra)
#### Post date: [June 14, 2013, 3:10am UTC](https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/t/how-to-give-spaces-gap-between-lines-for-text-while-writing-to-xml-nodes/2163/2 "2013-06-14T03:10:10Z")
I also has a similar task as mentioned above . Can some one help me.
---
### Author:  [@Vincent](https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/u/Vincent)
#### Post date: [June 16, 2013, 3:38am UTC](https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/t/how-to-give-spaces-gap-between-lines-for-text-while-writing-to-xml-nodes/2163/3 "2013-06-16T03:38:35Z")
I'm not able to reproduce this here. I have attached an example project which show it working with FB7.