[jdom-interest] Bug in SAXHandler: ignorable white space is thrown away

[Elliotte Rusty Harold]

The SAXHandler class used by SAXBuilder does not override this SAX
method:

public void ignorableWhitespace(char[] ch,
                                int start,
                                int length)
                         throws SAXException

This means that text nodes contained entirely of ignorable white space
are thrown away. For example, when given this document

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<!DOCTYPE TEAM SYSTEM "team.dtd">
<TEAM xmlns:xinclude="http://www.w3.org/1999/XML/xinclude">
  <TEAM_CITY>New York</TEAM_CITY>
  <TEAM_NAME>Mets</TEAM_NAME>
</TEAM>

JDOM actually sees it as this document:

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<!DOCTYPE TEAM SYSTEM "team.dtd">
<TEAM
xmlns:xinclude="http://www.w3.org/1999/XML/xinclude"><TEAM_CITY>New
York</TEAM_CITY><TEAM_NAME>Mets</TEAM_NAME></TEAM>

This is not the behavior I need and not I think the default behavior
JDOM should use. It's most important for formatting, but it's not just a
formatting issue. This bug means that when a document is built using
SAX, it's missing some of the text nodes it should have. 

For various technical reasons, white space nodes are only considered
ignorable in the presence of a DTD, so you'll only see this bug in valid
documents. 

DOMBuilder exhibits this bug as well, though I'm not sure why. 

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