XmlParser trim whitespace by default

I just found out that groovy.util.XmlParser trims whitespace by default. When parsing XML files with text nodes that contain trailing whitespace, for example, whitespace is removed in the Node returned by the parser.

def parser = new XmlParser()
def doc = parser.parseText("ABC ")
assert doc.data.text() == "ABC" // Not "ABC "!

To preserve whitespace, set the trimWhitespace property to false:

def parser = new XmlParser(trimWhitespace: false)
def doc = parser.parseText("ABC ")
assert doc.data.text() == "ABC "

View the source of compiled GSP

While grails is running in development mode, you can view the source of the compiled GSP by appending showSource to the URL. E.g.

http://localhost:8080/myapp/mycontroller/action?showSource

This trick is mentioned in http://www.piragua.com/2008/03/15/viewing-the-source-of-a-compiled-gsp-in-grails/ and was requested as an improvement in JIRA http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/GRAILS-2729.

I wonder how many more of these tricks are in grails.