No, parsers are free to report any contiguous bit of text as multiple
calls to characters() in the ContentHandler. This is many times affected by
the parser's own internal buffer sizing. Full buffer, it pops a call to
characters(). This can result in an Element node containing multiple
adjacent Text nodes as children. Normalization simply merges all of the
characters in all of the Text nodes into a single Text node. No changes are
made to the actual content/characters. Just the division and organization
of them within the DOM.
-bob
On Sat, 22 May 2004, Ben Munat wrote:
> I think I've solved my problem with SaxReader's setStripWhitespaceText.
> However, I wouldn't mind understanding the point of this normalize
> method... by "concatenate" do you mean remove newlines?
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