Benoit Maisonny wrote: > > What you find reasonable is to process whitespace differently depending > on whether that space is in the beginning of a text node or in the > middle, or if there is an opening tag following the text node. > > I would have seen more logical to treat the same way all whitespace in a > given text node. > > I found another special handling: > <body> > <div><p>test: </p><p>test</p></div> > </body> > In this case, XXE keeps the space in the first p. > But not in the following: > <body> > <p>test: </p> > > <p>test</p> > </body> > > What is the difference? Do you look at the text node's grand-parent's > content model (mixed not not) to decide whether to trim or not?
Something like that. (Note that body has mixed content in XHTML transitional and has element-only content in XHTML strict.) > I would need to know: > 1. What is the decision process leading to trim or not > 2. If your method is a widely accepted way of processing whitespace in > "default" mode. > 3. How did you decide on this method rather than not trimming as I > expected? > I'm sorry but answering all these questions in detail would take me too much time. All the answers are contained in the source code of XXE. See src/com/xmlmind/xmledit/edit/Trimmer.java (You are a customer of Professional Edition: you have access to the source code.) http://www.xmlmind.com/xmleditor/_distrib/doc/api/com/xmlmind/xmledit/edit/Trimmer.html
