XOM API for Processing XML with Java

[Tóth Tamás <toth.tamas AT all.hu>]

Hi,

I use the XOM library to parse and process .docx documents. MS Word 
stores text content in runs (<w:r>) inside the paragraph tags (<w:p>), 
and often breaks the text into several runs. Sometimes every word and 
every space between them is in a separate run. When I try to load a run 
containing only a single space, the parser removes that space and 
handles it as an empty tag (i.e. Element.getValue() returns null/empty 
string), as a result, the output contains the text without spaces. Why 
is it so? How could I force the parser to keep all the spaces?

This is how I call the parser:

|StreamingPathFilter  filter=  new  
StreamingPathFilter("/w:document/w:body/*:*",  prefixes);
Builder  builder=  new  Builder(filter.createNodeFactory(null,  
contentTransform));
builder.build(documentFile);
...

StreamingTransform  contentTransform=  new  StreamingTransform()  {

   @Override
   public  Nodes  transform(nu.xom.Element  node){
      <...process XML and output text...>
   }
}       
|

Thank you for your help!

Tamas