org.jdom.output
Class Format.TextMode

java.lang.Object
  org.jdom.output.Format.TextMode

Enclosing class:

Format

public static class Format.TextMode
extends java.lang.Object

Class to signify how text should be handled on output. The following table provides details.

Text Mode	Resulting behavior.
PRESERVE (Default)	All content is printed in the format it was created, no whitespace or line separators are are added or removed.
TRIM_FULL_WHITE	Content between tags consisting of all whitespace is not printed. If the content contains even one non-whitespace character, it is printed verbatim, whitespace and all.
TRIM	Same as TrimAllWhite, plus leading/trailing whitespace are trimmed.
NORMALIZE	Same as TextTrim, plus addition interior whitespace is compressed to a single space.

In most cases textual content is aligned with the surrounding tags (after the appropriate text mode is applied). In the case where the only content between the start and end tags is textual, the start tag, text, and end tag are all printed on the same line. If the document being output already has whitespace, it's wise to turn on TRIM mode so the pre-existing whitespace can be trimmed before adding new whitespace.

When a element has a xml:space attribute with the value of "preserve", all formating is turned off and reverts back to the default until the element and its contents have been printed. If a nested element contains another xml:space with the value "default" formatting is turned back on for the child element and then off for the remainder of the parent element.

Field Summary

static Format.TextMode	NORMALIZE Mode for text normalization (left and right trim plus internal whitespace is normalized to a single space.
static Format.TextMode	PRESERVE Mode for literal text preservation.
static Format.TextMode	TRIM Mode for text trimming (left and right trim).
static Format.TextMode	TRIM_FULL_WHITE Mode for text trimming of content consisting of nothing but whitespace but otherwise not changing output.

Method Summary

java.lang.String

toString()

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, wait, wait, wait

Field Detail

PRESERVE

public static final Format.TextMode PRESERVE

Mode for literal text preservation.

TRIM

public static final Format.TextMode TRIM

Mode for text trimming (left and right trim).

NORMALIZE

public static final Format.TextMode NORMALIZE

Mode for text normalization (left and right trim plus internal whitespace is normalized to a single space.

See Also:

Element.getTextNormalize()

TRIM_FULL_WHITE

public static final Format.TextMode TRIM_FULL_WHITE

Mode for text trimming of content consisting of nothing but whitespace but otherwise not changing output.

Method Detail

toString

public java.lang.String toString()

Overrides:

toString in class java.lang.Object