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Posted to c-users@xerces.apache.org by Swetha Nekkanti <sn...@cs.columbia.edu> on 2005/12/18 21:39:30 UTC

white spaces on deleting a node

Hi,

  I am facing a small problem when I delete a node from an XML DOM.
 When,I delete one or more nodes  from the DOM and I serialize the 
resulting DOM,I get white spaces in the parts where the nodes were deleted.

  Does anyone know how to remove these white spaces and why does this 
happen?

Thanks,
Swetha

Re: white spaces on deleting a node

Posted by dara <da...@risaris.com>.

Swetha Nekkanti wrote:

> Hi,
>
>  I am facing a small problem when I delete a node from an XML DOM.
> When,I delete one or more nodes  from the DOM and I serialize the 
> resulting DOM,I get white spaces in the parts where the nodes were 
> deleted.
>
>  Does anyone know how to remove these white spaces and why does this 
> happen?
>
> Thanks,
> Swetha
>
>
Hi Swetha,

A  DOM created from parsing includes all white spaces as text nodes 
unless you suppress it on the parsing.

There is an option via a parser setting to ignore 'ignorable' white 
spaces. (e.g. spaces/line-breaks between elements).

There is also an option on the DOM writer to suppress output of these 
entries.

Regards

Dara

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Dara Mulvihill,

Rísarís Ltd,

http://www.risaris.com

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