[XML-SIG] PrettyPrint

[Mike.Olson]

On Tue, 17 Dec 2002, Anders Bruun Olsen wrote:

> On Tue, Dec 17, 2002 at 04:54:30PM +0100, JS wrote:
> > I've got the following problem:
> > If I save the following xml file using PrettyPrint()
> > <?xml version="1.0"?>
> > <doc><raw><![CDATA[foo]]></raw><raw>bar</raw></doc>
> >  I get:
> > ##################PrettyPrint
> > <?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?>
> > <doc>
> >   <raw>
> >     <![CDATA[foo]]>
> >   </raw>
> >   <raw>bar</raw>
> > </doc>
> > Now next time I read in the xml, a new text node is created in the DOM tree
> > due to the indent an newline behind the first <raw> element.
> > I could use Print since it doesn't add any additional data. But Pretty is more
> > pretty ;-)
> > I'm not sure about ignorable whitespace in xml, but I think, it is not
> > correct.
> > Shouldn't the output be ...<raw><![CDATA[foo]]></raw>...?
>
> I haven't tried this myself, but it sounds like what you are looking for
> is a normalize function - that way you should be able to rid yourself of
> the extra whitespace and linebreaks.
>
> Please correct me if I am wrong :)

normalize will not get rid of extra white space and line breaks, it will
combine adjacent ones into a single text node.  This won't fix this
problem as there still will be a text node before the "raw" element.

Mike

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