[jdom-interest] Auto-normalizing attribute values

[Philip Nelson]

I can't see any negatives, would it help people much?

--- Elliotte Rusty Harold <elharo at metalab.unc.edu> wrote:
> A question for consideration:
> 
> Should the various setAttributeValue() methods in Element and Attribute 
> check the attribute type and normalize the string according to the 
> attribute type? i.e. normalize the white space if the attribute has any 
> type other than CDATA or UNDECLARED.
> 
> Currently it is possible for getAttributeValue() and related methods to 
> return a string containing lots of extraneous white space where it 
> wouldn't be expected in ID and IDREFs attributes and the like.
> 
> Note that unlike the getTextTrim() and getTextNormalize() methods for 
> Element, the XML spec does specify normalization behavior for 
> attributes. We follow this spec on input because th eparser normalizes 
> for us. This would only be an issue when setting attribute values 
> outside the context of a parser.
> 
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