net.sf.saxon.om
Interface SpaceStrippingRule

All Known Implementing Classes:

AllElementsSpaceStrippingRule, NoElementsSpaceStrippingRule, SelectedElementsSpaceStrippingRule, StylesheetSpaceStrippingRule

public interface SpaceStrippingRule

Interface for deciding whether a particular element is to have whitespace text nodes stripped

Method Summary

byte	isSpacePreserving(NodeName nodeName) Decide whether an element is in the set of white-space preserving element types

Method Detail

isSpacePreserving

byte isSpacePreserving(NodeName nodeName)
                       throws XPathException

Decide whether an element is in the set of white-space preserving element types

Parameters:

nodeName - Identifies the name of the element whose whitespace is to be preserved

Returns:

Stripper.ALWAYS_PRESERVE if the element is in the set of white-space preserving element types, Stripper.ALWAYS_STRIP if the element is to be stripped regardless of the xml:space setting, and Stripper.STRIP_DEFAULT otherwise

Throws:

XPathException - if the rules are ambiguous and ambiguities are to be reported as errors