[jdom-interest] setIgnoringElementContentWhitespace inoperant ?

Eric VERGNAUD eric.vergnaud at wanadoo.fr
Thu Dec 9 02:37:42 PST 2004


le 9/12/04 6:10, Jason Hunter à jhunter at xquery.com a écrit :

>> I want the final document to look pretty, so doing the cleanup on output
>> would require 2 cycles, parse document, save with compact format, read
>> compact document, save with pretty format.
>> 
>> Since these particular documents have no DTD, is there a way to tell the
>> parser that there are no mixed elements, and thus perform the cleanup ?
> 
> Nope; I've long wanted an input.setIgnoringAllWhitespace() method on the
> SAXBuilder but when I started implementing it (it'd have to be a JDOM
> level feature as SAX parsers don't have such a notion), I found it
> difficult to do without a lot of look ahead.  Perhaps it'd be easier
> with today's SAXBuilder design.  You're welcome to implement such a
> feature.  I'd be happy to commit it.
> 
> -jh-

Ok, I'll have a look.

Eric





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