[Haskell-beginners] XML output

[Torsten Otto]

Hi, all!

I'm struggling with a strange phenomenon.
If I read a file containing

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a
b
c
__

the program below works as expected. If I read a svg file
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<?xml version="1.0"?>
<svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg">
<rect x="0" y="0" width="180" height="180" fill="white"/> 
</svg>
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the first two lines are not processed.

Program:
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module SVG()
where

import IO

main :: IO ()
main = do
 s <- readFile "sierpinski1.svg"
 putStrLn s
 writeFile "sierpinski1_.svg" s
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Results of putStrLn:
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*SVG> main
a
b
c
*SVG> main
<rect x="0" y="0" width="180" height="180" fill="white"/> 
</svg>
*SVG> 
__

File Output lists the whole file, though.

I don't understand this, why is GHCi stripping the output this way?

Thanks,
regards,
Torsten