XOM API for Processing XML with Java

[Elliotte Harold <elharo AT metalab.unc.edu>]

Wolfgang Hoschek wrote:

>      private boolean isBoundaryWhitespace(Text text) {
>
> //        if (getIndent() <= 0) return false; // WH moved to write 
> (Text) (better inlining)
>
>          // XXX check this without getValue
> //        if (!"".equals(text.getValue().trim())) return false;
>          if (text.getValue().trim().length() > 0) return false; // WH
>          ParentNode parent = text.getParent();
>          if (parent == null) return false; // WH allow parentless text
>
>          ... and so on
>      }

I'm looking at this now. It's simple enough to implement, but I'm not 
sure I know yet what ti should. Specifically, in the case when the 
parent node is null, what should and should not be boundary whitespace? 
The solution you propose would assert that parentless text nodes are 
never boundary whitespace. The alternative would be to assert that all 
white space only parentless text nodes are boundary whitespace.

This only matters when indenting, but then the problem only comes up in 
the first place when indenting. I'm not sure which way to go here. 
Anyone want to argue this one way or the other?

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