JTidy Is Wrapping My Paragraphs

Question

I am using JTidy and Flying Saucer to create PDF documents from HTML. I use JTidy to make sure all the elements are clean and formatted correctly before passing the document into Flying Saucer.

I have run into an issue with JTidy that I cannot figure out. There is one "p" element that has quite a lot of text, it is being populated from a database and has been formatted using white spaces. In the HTML it is displayed using the style "white-space: pre-line;" and so it shows up something like this

<p>
Section 1:
A lot of text from section 1 that goes on and on for quite some time.

Section 2 :
....
</p>

This is displayed correctly in the browser where we have section broken out based on their whitespace. However after running through JTidy the above code turns into

<p>  Section 1: A lot of text from section 1 
that goes on and on for quite some time.
Section 2 : ....
</p>

Essentially it just wraps all the text into a big section that only goes for a certain number of characters and then wraps to the next line. Because of this, since I am using pre-line the output in the resulting PDF is wrong. I have looked into the documentation at http://jtidy.sourceforge.net/apidocs/org/w3c/tidy/Tidy.html but haven't been able to find the solution. So far my Java code looks like this

Tidy tidy = new Tidy();
tidy.setShowWarnings(true);
tidy.setInputEncoding("UTF-8");
tidy.setOutputEncoding("UTF-8");
tidy.setXHTML(true);
tidy.setMakeClean(true);

I have tried using

tidy.setWrapSection(false);

but this has not changed the output. Any help would be appreciated.

Answer 1

JTidy has a narrow default wrap margin size. To avoid wrap altogether set wrap to 0

tidy.setWraplen(0);