Hello,
Currently clojure.xml discards text nodes when they contain only
whitespace characters. Can this behavior be made optional?
Attached is a patch which adds a *preserve-whitespace* var (by defaul to
false).
Thanks,
Christophe
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diff --git a/src/clj/clojure/xml.clj b/src/clj/clojure/xml.clj
index 251f16c..15f3ade 100644
--- a/src/clj/clojure/xml.clj
+++ b/src/clj/clojure/xml.clj
@@ -14,6 +14,8 @@
(def *current*)
(def *state*) ; :element :chars :between
(def *sb*)
+(def #^{:doc "When set to true, clojure.xml/parse preserves significant whitespace."}
+ *preserve-whitespace* false)
(defstruct element :tag :attrs :content)
@@ -25,8 +27,9 @@
(let [push-content (fn [e c]
(assoc e :content (conj (or (:content e) []) c)))
push-chars (fn []
- (when (and (= *state* :chars)
- (some (complement #(. Character (isWhitespace %))) (str *sb*)))
+ (when (and (= *state* :chars)
+ (or *preserve-whitespace*
+ (some (complement #(. Character (isWhitespace %))) (str *sb*))))
(set! *current* (push-content *current* (str *sb*)))))]
(new clojure.lang.XMLHandler
(proxy [ContentHandler] []
