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Vance, Yes indeed this is not a pure DOM/XML issue, however the DC extension does purport to adhere to standard XML concepts. The following is from the datachannel documentation on the PreserveWhiteSpace parameter: "As per the XML Language Specification, this specifies the white space handling for the application; that is, the default white space handling to apply when xml:space="default". If preserveWhiteSpace is true, all white space will be preserved regardless of the setting of any xml:space attributes in the document. The white space will be preserved by additional text nodes being present in the tree. If preserveWhiteSpace is false, then the values of the xml:space attribute specified in the document will determine whether white space is preserved or not. " So with that clarification is this a bug or a feature? erik -----Original Message----- From: Vance Christiaanse [mailto:vance@t...] Sent: Tuesday, July 27, 1999 11:49 AM To: Erik James Freed Cc: Xml-Dev; Keith Swenson Subject: Re: Preserving white space and entity references in DataChannel XJP > Erik James Freed wrote: > > I am experiencing some strange behavior with the datachannel XML > parser package (the most recent one). > In my reading of the DOM spec, this is not appropriate behavior, but > perhaps I am missing something. > > The behavior is that when I do a 'setPreserveWhiteSpace(true)' before > parsing a document, and the document > contains strings with entity references such as: > > <element1> < fubar > </element1> > > when I then do a getText() on element1, what is returned is a > java.lang.String that contains a null (char 0) for each entity > reference. > > These nulls of course confound the rest of the code I am writing. In > side the DOM tree the entity reference objects are happily holding the > appropriate text representation i.e. '<' and '>'. > > Turning off white space preservation makes the getText() place > appropriate decoded entity references in the resulting string. > > Bug or feature? > > erik > > > Erik James Freed > InfoCanvas Software I don't see a setPreserveWhiteSpace(...) method or preserveWhiteSpace class or instance variable in the DOM spec and I don't see getText() or a text variable either. The answer to "bug or feature" would be up to the > datachannel XML parser package Vance Vance Christiaanse TextWise, LLC vance@t... xml-dev: A list for W3C XML Developers. To post, mailto:xml-dev@i... Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/xml-dev/ and on CD-ROM/ISBN 981-02-3594-1 To (un)subscribe, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; (un)subscribe xml-dev To subscribe to the digests, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; subscribe xml-dev-digest List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (mailto:rzepa@i...)
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