[Htmlparser-developer] Method to check if TextNode is just whitespace

[Ian M. <ian...@gm...>]

I was thinking it might be worthwhile adding a method to Text/TextNode
along the lines of:

boolean isWhiteSpace()

Which would return if the TextNode consisted of solely white space
characters (or was the empty String).

Now this could simply be done using String.trim().equals(""), however
that wouldn't account for:

- the non-breaking space character (#160)
- The HTML code   (also &nbsp as Firefox/IE do)
- The HTML code   (also &#160 as Firefox/IE do)

So my question is, do you think should this method should treat those
as spaces and remove/ignore them also for purposes of determining if
the TextNode is white space? Or should it only trim normal whitespace
(space, tab, carriage returns, etc).

Thanks for your advice

Ian Macfarlane