diff --git a/normalization/data/glif/format1.glif b/normalization/data/glif/format1.glif
index 9a351fa..a6c62c9 100644
--- a/normalization/data/glif/format1.glif
+++ b/normalization/data/glif/format1.glif
@@ -28,4 +28,4 @@
 			<string>arbitrary custom data!</string>
 		</dict>
 	</lib>
-</glyph>
\ No newline at end of file
+</glyph>
diff --git a/normalization/data/glif/format2.glif b/normalization/data/glif/format2.glif
index 7796cce..99b476c 100644
--- a/normalization/data/glif/format2.glif
+++ b/normalization/data/glif/format2.glif
@@ -36,4 +36,4 @@
 	<note>
 		arbitrary text about the glyph
 	</note>
-</glyph>
\ No newline at end of file
+</glyph>
diff --git a/normalization/test_ufonormalizer.py b/normalization/test_ufonormalizer.py
index 4bd2a90..33965b4 100644
--- a/normalization/test_ufonormalizer.py
+++ b/normalization/test_ufonormalizer.py
@@ -443,9 +443,9 @@ def test_normalizeFontInfoPlist_guidelines_zero_is_not_None(self):
 
     def _test_glifFormat(self):
         glifFormat = {}
-        glifFormat[1] = GLIFFORMAT1.strip().replace("    ", "\t")
+        glifFormat[1] = GLIFFORMAT1.replace("    ", "\t")
 
-        glifFormat[2] = GLIFFORMAT2.strip().replace("    ", "\t")
+        glifFormat[2] = GLIFFORMAT2.replace("    ", "\t")
         return glifFormat
 
     def test_normalizeGLIF_formats_1_and_2(self):
diff --git a/normalization/ufonormalizer.py b/normalization/ufonormalizer.py
index ceba154..ab813b9 100644
--- a/normalization/ufonormalizer.py
+++ b/normalization/ufonormalizer.py
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@
 - things that need to be improved are marked with "# TO DO"
 """
 
-__version__ = "0a1"
+__version__ = "0a2"
 description = """
 UFO Normalizer (version %s):
 
@@ -528,6 +528,7 @@ def normalizePropertyList(data, preprocessor=None):
     writer.beginElement("plist", attrs=dict(version="1.0"))
     writer.propertyListObject(data)
     writer.endElement("plist")
+    writer.raw("")
     return writer.getText()
 
 # GLIF
@@ -596,6 +597,7 @@ def normalizeGLIFString(text, glifPath=None, imageFileRef=[]):
     if note is not None:
         _normalizeGlifNote(note, writer)
     writer.endElement("glyph")
+    writer.raw("")
     return writer.getText()
 
 def normalizeGLIF(ufoPath, *subpath):