Another property that might help is to explicitly combine adjacent text SAX
events into a single Text node.
SAXReader reader = new SAXReader();
reader.setMergeAdjacentText(true);
reader.setStripWhitespaceText(true);
Note that the whitespace stripping only strips whitespace from end
element/start element blocks. So this XML
<foo>
<bar/>
</foo>
would have no whitespace. However this
<foo> this is some text </for>
would have lots.
We could probably do with a 'normalizeWhitespace' method that would turn any
continuous whitespace into a single ' ' character or something. Maybe you
could write one and submit it for inclusing in the distribution? :-)
James
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Calen Martin D. Legaspi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, September 19, 2002 10:03 AM
Subject: [dom4j-user] whitespace, NodeComparator, and SAXReader question
> I'm trying to compare to xml files, such that the comparison is
> insensitive to whitespace. I used the method "setStripWhitespaceText()"
> in the hope of making the SAXReader insensitive to whitespace. However,
> when I use NodeComparator.compareContent(), I do not get the desired
> zero even if the only difference between the two xml docs is whitespace
> within an element. Below is my code:
>
>
> SAXReader r = new SAXReader();
> r.setStripWhitespaceText(true);
> Document docTest = r.read("TestFiles/test.mapping.xsl");
> Document docTestTest = r.read("TestFiles/test.test.mapping.xsl");
>
> NodeComparator c = new NodeComparator();
> System.out.println("Result of comparison: " + c.compareContent(docTest,
> docTestTest));
>
>
> Thanks for your reply!
>
> BTW, dom4j is definitely the best XML API I've ever used, and I actively
> endorse it to all my friends. Thanks to the project owners and all the
> contributors for creating an API that is making me look good with my
> bosses.
>
> ;)
>
>
>
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