[jdom-interest] setIgnoringElementContentWhitespace inoperant ?

[Ken Roberts]

On Thu, 2004-12-09 at 06:38, Elliotte Harold wrote:

> setIgnoringAllWhitespace()  is the wrong name for this functionality. Do 
> you really want to throw away all white space? 
> Eveninrecordlikedocumentsthiscouldbeveryhardtoread. I think what you 
> really want to do is throw away all text nodes that consist of white 
> space exclusively, but retain all white space in text nodes that contain 
>   any non-whitespace characters. The correct name for this method would 
> be setIgnoringBoundaryWhitespace(). The functionality proposed is fine. 
> I just want to make sure we get the name right.


What something like this should do is convert an infinite amount of
whitespace in a single instance into a single space.  Not sure about
"middle" text, but an equivalent of String.trim() would probably be OK
anywhere if you choose this option. Keep in mind that it's an OPTION
rather than a change in default behavior.
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