#7 Handle embedded whitespace differencing

[Phil W-S]

It is possible to ask XMLUnit to ignore whitespace.
Unfortunately this only does string trims so any embedded
whitespace remains a difference as far as XMLUnit is
concerned.

Request: ensure that text comparisons when whitespace is
to be ignored is undertaken against
"whitespace-normalized" strings.

[Tim Moore]

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This would be very useful for me. I'm currently trying to
format some pretty-printed XHTML with stuff generated by an
XSLT transform. Line-wrapped text is calculated as different
from non-wrapped but otherwise identical text.

[Stefan Bodewig]

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there now is an option to "normalize" whitespace, which replaces all whitespace chars with " " and collapses multiple consecutive whitespace chars to a single space.