Re: [Classpathx-xml] Aelfred2 problem with whitespace

[Maarten Coene]

Musachy,

thanks a lot!

regards,
Maarten

Musachy Barroso wrote:

> fixed in cvs now....even when I don't get any regression, I'm not 100%
> sure it won't break anything else, give it a try.
>
> musachy 
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> On Sat, 7 Aug 2004 15:47:48 +0100, Chris Burdess <address@hidden> wrote:
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> > > > For instance, if I parse the following document:
> > > >    <root>&lt;head&gt; &amp; &lt;body&gt;</root>
> > > > the spaces before and after the "&amp;" are lost!!
> > > >        
> > > I checked it out, the thing is that the spaces are getting reported as
> > > ignorableWhitespace.
> > >
> > > I got this from the SAX faq (http://www.saxproject.org/?selected=faq):
> > >
> > > The ContentHandler.characters() callback is missing data!
> > >
> > >    Please read the JavaDoc for this method. A parser may split text
> > > into any number of separate chunks, and some characters may be
> > > reported using ignorableWhitespace() instead of this callback.
> > >
> > >    If you want all the text inside an element, you need to collect
> > > the text from the various characters callbacks into a buffer. Only
> > > when you see the endElement event can you be sure that you have seen
> > > all the text, and some of it may really "belong" to child elements.
> > >      
> > However, this whitespace is clearly NOT ignorable! We should only
> > report whitespace via the ignorableWhitespace callback if there are no
> > text children of the element, or exceptionally in the case of a mixed
> > content model where there is no text between elements (since it may be
> > too computationally expensive otherwise).
> >
> > I'd like to consider this a bug.
> > - --
> > Chris Burdess
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