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• From: Silviu LEAHU <sleahu@p...>
• To: xml-dev@X...
• Date: Tue, 06 Jun 2000 10:44:48 +0200 (CEST)

Hello sirs !

I would like to submit a problem I have concerning an output of  a DOM object
to a file.

I have made a method which write this object in a tree-view, by adding
recursively new-line characters and spaces, depending on the depth of the 
node. That works fine for objects newly created.

If I load an already existing  XML file for parsing (file which contains
already a tree-aspect), play with it and try to ?output? it to a file, I get
double new-line characters and spaces. So I?ve implemented a ?boolean? to
indicate if it?s desired a tree-view or not (to make the distinction between
the newly created DOM object and that one taken from a existing file). This
works fine as long as I keep this clear separation.

What if I?m loading a DOM object and try to add some new elements? 

If  I have:   addNewLineCharacter(false)
I?ll get something like:
       <oldelement>
         sometext
       </oldlement><newelement>another text</newelement>

If  I have:   addNewLineCharacter(true)
I?ll get something like:
       <oldelement>

           sometext

       </oldlement>
       <newelement>
         another text
       </newelement>

So my question is: does an element with one ?child? contains some _TextNode_s
too, for ?\n? characters and spaces? How can I ignore the ?whitespaces??

I have implemented myself the writing method and I can?t understand why if I?m
loading a XML file and having it in memory, I still have those characters used
only for ?pretty-printing?.

I would rather prefer some ?technical explanations? than pointing to some
existing methods.

Sincerely, 

silviu leahu


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