Re: [xml] xmlKeepBlanksDefault

[Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>]

On Sat, Apr 30, 2011 at 01:29:02PM +0100, Alex Bligh wrote:
> I'd like to check my understanding of xmlKeepBlanksDefault.
>
> What I want to do is to make xmlParseFile not generate whitespace nodes
> (i.e. I want it to generate the same tree exactly as if no additional
> whitespace had been provided), but have xmlSaveFormatFile write
> a file out with formatting.
>
> I know I can set XML_PARSE_NOBLANKS in xmlParserOption in xmlReadFile, but
> this is not available in xmlParseFile. xmlReadFile also seems to do far

  Use xmlReadFile, it's the modern API for parsing
do not use xmlSaveFormatFile, use the modern APIs for saving from xmlsave
  http://xmlsoft.org/html/libxml-xmlsave.html

create a saving context, tell it how you want the output.

> more than xmlParseFie (currently I'm using ML_PARSE_NONET |
> XML_PARSE_NODICT | XML_PARSE_NOXINCNODE | XML_PARSE_NOBLANKS to turn all
> that off).

  Okay

> Setting xmlKeepBlanksDefault to 0 looks promising, and indeed appears
> to work. However, the manual page somewhat cryptically says:

 Simpler: "do not use xmlKeepBlanksDefault, it's a global variable"

Daniel

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