After loading your XML document process it aganst a XSLT Document that contains the <xsl:strip-space elements="*" />
My DOM solution looks like this: " private final static String xslStripWhitspaces = "<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl=\"http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform\"; version=\"1.0\" xmlns=\"http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40\";>"+ "<xsl:output method = \"xml\" indent = \"yes\" omit-xml-declaration = \"yes\"/><xsl:strip-space elements=\"*\" />"+ "<xsl:template match=\"@*|*|text()|processing-instruction()\">"+ "<xsl:copy><xsl:apply-templates select=\"@*|*|text()|processing-instruction()\" /></xsl:copy></xsl:template></xsl:stylesheet>"; private static Templates stripWhitSpaceTemplate = null; private static Transformer stripper = null; static { try { stripWhitSpaceTemplate = TransformerFactory.newInstance().newTemplates( new StreamSource(new StringReader(xslStripWhitspaces))); stripper = stripWhitSpaceTemplate.newTransformer(); stripper.setOutputProperty("encoding", "UTF-8"); } catch ( Exception ignore ) {} } " My solutions means an extra parse/process but it is the only way I know... Suc6, Henry ----- Original Message ----- From: "Malia Zaheer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, September 12, 2002 5:26 PM Subject: RE: Ignoring Whitespace > You may want to search the mail archive for xerces for questions like this: > > http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=xerces-j-user&r=1&w=2 > > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Nickolay Kolev [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, September 12, 2002 8:59 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Ignoring Whitespace > > > Hi All, > > I am a first time poster. > > Could anyone please point me to (or give me) a tip on ignoring the > whitespace in XML elements (tabs, newlines, etc.)... I am using JDK 1.4. > 1 and SAX (do you say "I use SAX"??). > > I am trying to get the sum of the contents (just numerical data) of all > elements in a file but get errors. > > If I write the file as one line (no tabs or newlines) if works without > complaints. > > Also I would like to know how to isolate the case in which there will > be elements containing data other than numerical. (For example: <num> > elements will contain the numerical data, all others some other data). > How do I get the contents of only the <num> tags? > > I have tried searching the Java documentation, and generally the net > but had no luck so I thought I'd ask. > > Sorry if I am bothering you with too newbie questions! > > Many thanks in advance, > nmk > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
