XML::Normalize::LibXML (3pm)

use XML::Normalize::LibXML qw(trim xml_normalize xml_strip_whitespace);

$greeting=trim(\*(L" hallo world \*(R"); # returns \*(L"hallo world\*(R" xml_normalize($dom->getDocumentElement()); xml_strip_whitespace($dom->getDocumentElement());

This module provides simple whitespace striping and text-node normalizing functions. Returns the string with any whitespace occuring at its beginning or end removed. Puts all Text nodes in the full depth of the sub-tree underneath this Element into a normal form where only markup (e.g., tags, comments, processing instructions, \s-1CDATA\s0 sections, and entity references) separates Text nodes, i.e., there are no adjacent Text nodes. This can be used to ensure that the \s-1DOM\s0 view of a document is the same as if it were saved and re-loaded, and is useful when operations (such as XPointer lookups) that depend on a particular document tree structure are to be used. Normalizes the subtree and trims whitespace from all Text nodes within the subtree. If the optional argument $include_attributes is defined and non-zero, this function trims whitespace also from all Attribute nodes. Removes leading and trailing whitespace from a given element.

Petr Pajas, [email protected]

Copyright 2002-2003 Petr Pajas, All rights reserved.

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.

XML::LibXML