On 3 Oct 2004, at 22:12, Simon Kitching wrote:
On Fri, 2004-10-01 at 20:40, Marco Mistroni wrote:Hello all, I am currently having a problem (?) with digester in the Sense that in parsing XML is 'trimming' whitespaces..
Hi Marco,
Yes, some Digester rules do this deliberately. If you look at the source
for CallParamRule, CallMethodRule, etc. you will see something like:
bodyText = bodyText.trim();
As this code precedes my involvement in Digester, I can't say exactly what the motivation was for doing this, but presume there was a good reason.
craig or scott would be needed to give a definitive answer to this one.
my guess is that since the handling of whitespace by parsers has been variable, the best way to achieve consistency is to lose all whitespace.
I certainly have been using digester fairly heavily and not
needed to allow leading/trailing whitespace in element bodies. However I
can understand that some people might need to.
I would recommend that you take a copy of the source of whatever rule is
causing you problems and rename the class (including changing the
package declaration to something in your namespace), then delete the
trim() call.
i'm not sure whether this would do it.
i suspect that what would be needed would be for an additional flag to be added to digester that would pass on all calls to ignorableWhitespace to characters. depending on the parser used, some configuration may be necessary to ensure that the whitespace is passed on to digester.
in terms of the rules, it would probably be neater and quicker to move the trim call out of the rule (where it may be called multiple times) and into digester. when digester was set to ignore whitespace, whitespace would be trimmed. when the setting was to record whitespace, ignorableWhitespace would pass the whitespace on to characters and the output wouldn't be trimmed.
should be quite an easy change to make but ensuring that recording whitespace worked might prove more tricky...
- robert
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