DataObject.getString(path) returns value after replacing the multiple spaces with a single space

Tag value contains multiple spaces, but the api DataObject.getString(path) returns the value after replacing multiple spaces with a single space.

Eg. Considering following input

<X12data>ISA*00* 00 ZZ*084 *ZZ*080 *091202*1616*U*00401*000000820*0*T^~<X12data>

dataObject.get("X12data") must return ISA*00* 00 ZZ*084 *ZZ*080 *091202*1616*U*00401*000000820*0*T^~

but instead it returns ISA*00* 00 ZZ*084 *ZZ*080 *091202*1616*U*00401*000000820*0*T^~

Notice the missing spaces in actual output