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Re: [XOM-interest] Ignoring white spaces and line breaks betweenelements

From: "Michael Kay" <mike AT saxonica.com>
To: "'ozkan ozcan'" <ozcozk AT gmail.com>, <XOM-interest AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Subject: Re: [XOM-interest] Ignoring white spaces and line breaks betweenelements
Date: Thu, 22 Dec 2005 10:48:04 -0000

>
> when i try to extract all Text nodes with XPath (//text()), I get line
> breaks also as Text nodes, which is not expected.

It might not be what you expect, but it is correct behaviour according to
the XPath specification.

> Is there an easy way of making Builder ignore line breaks.

You can insert a simple SAX filter that removes whitespace-only text nodes.

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/

[XOM-interest] Ignoring white spaces and line breaks between elements, ozkan ozcan, 12/22/2005
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- [XOM-interest] Ignoring white spaces and line breaks between elements, ozkan ozcan, 12/22/2005
  - Re: [XOM-interest] Ignoring white spaces and line breaks betweenelements, Michael Kay, 12/22/2005
  - Re: [XOM-interest] Ignoring white spaces and line breaks between elements, Elliotte Harold, 12/22/2005