Re: [xml] Remove whitespaces from text nodes

[Laurence Rowe <l lrowe co uk>]

On 14 February 2012 09:59,  <spam spam spam spam free fr> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I write a C program using the libxml2 library.
> It takes as argument an input XML file and it displays the content at the screen.
>
> This is the input file :
> <library name="library of UM2">
>        <book name="Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software"
>                author="Erich Gamma"
>                editor="Addison Wesley"
>                isbn="9780201633610">
>                My book "A"
>        </book>
>        <book name="Computer Networks"
>                author="Andrew S. Tanenbaum"
>                editor="Prentice Hall"
>                isbn="9780133499452">
>                My book "B"
>        </book>
>        <book name="Introduction to Algorithms"
>                author="Thomas H. Cormen"
>                editor="MIT Press"
>                isbn="9780262033848">
>                My book "C"
>        </book>
> </library>
>
> This is the output :
> $ src/xmlnodelistgetstring data/data.xml
> "
>                My book "A"
>        "
> "
>                My book "B"
>        "
> "
>                My book "C"
>        "
>
> I would like to have this output (without editing my XML file) :
> "My book "A""
> "My book "B""
> "My book "C""
>
> The useless whitespaces are removed from text nodes.
>
> Is there a function which do this work?

Take a look at the xmllint source, it has a --noblanks option which
sets xmlKeepBlanksDefault(0);

Laurence