Skip only whitespace with a line break.

Author: jamwil

src/de/mod.rs

@@ -2789,8 +2789,16 @@ where
     fn skip_whitespaces(&mut self) -> Result<(), DeError> {
         loop {
             match self.peek()? {
+                // Skip only blank text nodes that contain a newline or carriage return
+                // (typical pretty-printed formatting). Preserve other blank text
+                // (e.g. single space) as they may be significant for some deserialization scenarios.
                 DeEvent::Text(e) if e.is_blank() => {
-                    self.next()?;
+                    let contains_newline = e.text.chars().any(|c| c == '\n' || c == '\r');
+                    if contains_newline {
+                        self.next()?;
+                        continue;
+                    }
+                    break;
                 }
                 _ => break,
             }
@@ -4648,7 +4656,6 @@ mod tests {
                     assert_eq!(de.next().unwrap(), DeEvent::Text(" ".into()));
                     assert_eq!(de.next().unwrap(), DeEvent::End(BytesEnd::new("tag")));
                     assert_eq!(de.next().unwrap(), DeEvent::Eof);
-                    // Passes as expected
                 }
 
                 // start::text::text has no difference from start::text

tests/serde-de.rs

@@ -47,7 +47,6 @@ mod text {
 
         let item: Item = from_str(r#"<root>content </root>"#).unwrap();
 
-        // Passes as expected
         assert_eq!(
             item,
             Item {
@@ -66,7 +65,6 @@ mod text {
 
         let item: Item = from_str(r#"<root> </root>"#).unwrap();
 
-        // Fails: called `Result::unwrap()` on an `Err` value: Custom("missing field `$text`")
         assert_eq!(
             item,
             Item {