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Since NB 6.1, the Autoformatter for XML files inserts linefeeds before the closing tag of an element definition. It also removes any empty lines between elements. This destroys the structure of XML files, which are manually maintained. The behavior of of the formatter should be either configurable or changed back to 6.0 handling.
*** This issue has been marked as a duplicate of 135478 ***