[jdom-interest] Re: XMLOutputter testing

Wed Feb 6 10:40:27 PST 2002

Jason Hunter writes:

> The only thing I found is that if you turn text normalization on, then
> XHTML-style output is altered.  For example:
> 
> <body>
> Here goes  the <i> body</i> and a <a href="foo.html">link</a>.
> </body>
> 
> becomes
> 
> <body>Here goes the<i>body</i>and a<a href="foo.html">link</a>.</body>
> 
> and I personally always wanted something more like
> 
> <body> Here goes the <i> body</i> and a <a href="foo.html">link</a>.
> </body>

Oops, misread the example the first time.  Hmmm, I see what you mean in
this example.  Falls back to what is normalize.  Right now XMLOutputter
use normalize as defined in Element.getTextNormalize, which is so

     x.setContent(" blah, blah,   blah ");
     y.setContent("blah, blah,   blah ");
     (x.getTextNormalize()).equals(y.getTextNormalize()) == true

Which, in your example, doesn't give the desired results.

Brad