[jdom-interest] retrieving the children of an element as text

[Paul Libbrecht]

J. McConnell wrote:
> On 9/13/06, Jason Hunter <jhunter at servlets.com> wrote:
>> J. McConnell wrote:
>> > On 9/13/06, Jason Hunter <jhunter at servlets.com> wrote:
>> >> I'd recommend xmlOutputter.outputString(mainelement.getContent()).
>> I think it will, since getContent() includes the elements as well as the
>> whitespace text nodes, and by default XMLOutputter doesn't alter source
>> whitespace.
> Huh, good to know.  Sorry for the confusion and thanks for the 
> explanation!

Can I ask whether DOM is better than SAX in this respect ?
Whether there's anything yet different better than that ?
(e.g. that would preserve whitespace inside tags)

thanks

paul
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