File Content Conversion Removes Leading Blank/Space

Question

I'm having a problem where file content conversion is trimming leading blanks/space/whitespace from fields when reading in the inbound file.  I've seen where people have posted that you need to use fieldContentFormatting to prevent content conversion from stripping the leading/trailing whitespace.  I added that parameter to my list (see below example) but it still appears to be trimming the leading whitespace.  Look forward to hearing your thoughts.  Here are the details:
I'm using fixed length file content conversion for Sender File Adapter (SP15).  I have the following parameters set:
Document Name = MaterialData
Recordset name = item
Recordset Structure = MaterialLine, 1
I have:
MaterialLine.fieldNames = matno_external, mat_description
MaterialLine.fieldFixedLengths = 40, 40
MaterialLine.fieldContentFormatting = nothing, nothing
The following is the input file (notice spaces prior to second occurrence of material numbers)
ZED00000001                             AIMS LIGHT A
ZED00000001                            AIMS LIGHT B
ZED00000002                             AIMS SWITCH A
ZED00000002                            AIMS SWITCH B
ZED00000003                             AIMS SEMICONDUCTOR A
ZED00000003                            AIMS SEMICONDUCTOR B
The following is the source XML after file content conversion from SXMB_MONI (note spaces no longer exist in matno_external tag).
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
- <ns:MaterialData xmlns:ns="http://xxxxxxx.com/yyy/test">
- <item>
- <MaterialLine>
  <matno_external>ZED00000001</matno_external>
  <mat_description>AIMS LIGHT A</mat_description>
  </MaterialLine>
  </item>
- <item>
- <MaterialLine>
  <matno_external>ZED00000001</matno_external>
  <create_date>10/09/06</create_date>
  <mat_description>AIMS LIGHT B</mat_description>
  </MaterialLine>
  </item>
- <item>
- <MaterialLine>
  <matno_external>ZED00000002</matno_external>
  <mat_description>AIMS SWITCH A</mat_description>
  </MaterialLine>
  </item>
- <item>
- <MaterialLine>
  <matno_external>ZED00000002</matno_external>
  <mat_description>AIMS SWITCH B</mat_description>
  </MaterialLine>
  </item>
- <item>
- <MaterialLine>
  <matno_external>ZED00000003</matno_external>
  <mat_description>AIMS SEMICONDUCTOR A</mat_description>
  </MaterialLine>
  </item>
- <item>
- <MaterialLine>
  <matno_external>ZED00000003</matno_external>
  <mat_description>AIMS SEMICONDUCTOR B</mat_description>
  </MaterialLine>
  </item>
  </ns:MaterialData>

Answer 1

Thanks all for your attempts but I figured it out and wasn't this the biggest case of irony.
Here I was trying to prevent leading spaces from being trimmed in the loading of my file and my problem was that when I typed:
MaterialLine.fieldContentFormatting
I actually left a "blank" at the end of the "g" in Formatting.  Apparently XI didn't like that and neither gave me a runtime or compile error.  Anyway I found this and though I'd share in case anyone else encounters it.  I removed the blank and all is working now.