[jdom-interest] Re: SAXBuilder enhancement request /2

[Elliotte Rusty Harold]

At 2:40 AM -0800 3/30/02, Dennis Sosnoski wrote:
>From a quick look at the code this appears to remove character data 
>consisting only of whitespace separating elements - it doesn't strip 
>leading and trailing whitespace from the character data content of 
>an element. It might be good to change the class description to make 
>this clear. :-)
>

White space trimming from elements that contain non-white space data 
seems even more dangerous to me than removing white-space only nodes. 
Plus there's less of a use-case for it. It's not like it's all that 
hard to call String.trim(). I propose that JDOM *not* include any 
trimming functionality.
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