Re: [xmljs-users] Whitespace stripped before/after entities.

[David J. <dj...@ya...>]

Hi Stepan,

I *think* I might have a fix for this. I'll give it more of a look tomorrow and if it does work,
send you a new copy of xmlw3cdom.js.

What *are* you doing to my poor parser anyway?

:)


David

--- Stepan Riha <xm...@no...> wrote:
> The W3CDOM parser incorrectly strips whitespace before and after entities.  For
> example, the tag
>     <TAG>Say Hello &lt;b&gt;World&lt;/b&gt; and Sky</TAG>
> should be parsed as
>     "Say Hello <b>World</b> and Sky"
> but is incorrectly parsed as
>     "Say Hello<b>World</b>and Sky"
> 
> A workaround (for my application) is to use
>    parser.preserveWhiteSpace = true;
> and then trim the text nodes myself.
> 
> The problem is caused in DOMImplementation__parseLoop() where you trim pContent
> in XMLP._TEXT nodes.  The trimming should really only happen after text nodes
> have been normalized (and thus contain entities).
> 
> The following demonstrates the problem:
> 
> function xmljsDOMExample() {
> var xml;
> xml = ""
> + "<?xml version=\"1.0\"?>"
> + "<ROOT>"
> + "<TAG1>"
> + "Say Hello &lt;b&gt;World&lt;/b&gt; and Sky"
> + "</TAG1>"
> + "</ROOT>";
> 
> //instantiate the W3C DOM Parser
> var parser = new DOMImplementation();
> 
> parser.preserveWhiteSpace = true;
> 
> //load the XML into the parser and get the DOMDocument
> var domDoc = parser.loadXML(xml);
> 
> //get the root node
> var docRoot = domDoc.getDocumentElement();
> 
> //get the "TAG1" element
> var tag1 = docRoot.getElementsByTagName("TAG1").item(0);
> 
> //the following should be
> //"Hello <b>World</b> and Sky"
> alert(tag1.firstChild.data);
> }// end function xmljsDOMExample
> 
>     - Stepan
> 
> -- 
> Stepan Riha
> 
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