[jdom-interest] Stirring up Trouble

[Brett McLaughlin]

Elliotte Rusty Harold wrote:
> 
> At 3:52 PM -0700 7/19/00, Jason Hunter wrote:
> 
> >> I was doing some work with XPointers today and noticed
> >> that white space including pure white space nodes are significant in
> >> XPointer as currently written. So that's just one more spec not
> >> handling white space properly will prevent JDOM from implementing.
> >
> >NOT TRUE!
> >
> >Elliotte, I've told you this before in public and in private email.  We
> >can fully support XPointers.  We don't remove the whitespace from the
> >document (not sure the current implementation does the right thing
> >there, but if not that's a bug).  That information is available (just
> >call the method version that takes a boolean) so XPointer can of course
> >be implemented.  The only thing being decided is whether the
> >getContent() convenience method calls getContent(false) or
> >getContent(true).
> 
> That's not what I'm talking about here. The question is not what
> getContent() does. It's what getMixedContent() does. Since
> getMixedContent() is stripping white space only nodes, you can't use
> it for any application, such as XPointer, that needs to see those
> white space only text nodes. Maybe I'm missing something but right
> now I don't see any method that will return the white space nodes in
> an element like this one
> 
> <novel>
>    <title>Fire</title>
>    <author>Jihn  Sith</title>
> </novel>
> 
> This novel element contains five children, three of which are white
> space only text nodes. XPointer needs to access all five children. I
> don't see how to do that using getMixedContent(), getContent() or any
> other method.

getMixedContent() would return that unless validation was on. I don't
see that as a problem, since the surrounding whitespace (between novel
and title, and between author and novel) is ignorarable (from XML 1.0)
with validation on.

Right?

-Brett

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