[jdom-interest] encoding problem converting XML document to string

[Bradley S. Huffman]

"William Krick" writes:

> Thanks for your help.
> 
> Unfortunately, setTextNormalize isn't supported in my version of JDOM
> 
> What I really need is to go from human readable formatted XML
> ASCII file to an XML string with no whitespace.
> 
> The steps in between are not really important to me.
> 
> I may end up having to skip the JDOM all together and just read the file a
> line at a time, trim leading and trailing whitespace, and append it to a
> string buffer.

Hmmm, a workaround might be to subclass SAXHandler with a new characters
method, something like

    void characters(char[] ch, int start, int len) {
        char[] new_ch;

        // Copy ch to new_ch trimming whitespace
                .
                .
                .
        // Call super
        super.characters(new_ch, new_start, new_len);
    }

But I cann't remember if all versions of SAXBuilder allow plugging in a custom
SAXHandler.

The only problem this might have is SAX allows a chunk of text to be broken
up into several calls to characters. But if you text strings are short, a
few hundred chars, you should be all right.

Brad