Remove whitespace, new line from XML tag text

I am using XMLDecoder to read the following XML input and get an object out of it. If you observe here the value in "<string>" is split into two lines. So when I print this field value from java object it comes as "spouse agency |||||||interact". I would like to get it as one string in one line.

I have tried the method replaceAll("[\\r\\f\\n]","") when reading the input, but it is not helpful. Please help!!!

<object

class="com.package.AgencyInteraction">

<void property="agencyName">

<string>spouse agency

interact</string>

</void>

<void property="completed">

<boolean>true</boolean>

</void>

<void property="interactionType">

<array

class="java.lang.String"

length="1">

<void index="0">

<string>It is

Regulated</string>

</void>

</array>

</void>

</object>

Thanks

[1025 byte] By [Shyamsundera] at [2007-11-27 6:04:12]