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| Compressing Whitespace in an XML Document | ||
|---|---|---|
| Code | Expected | Actual | 
| require 'rexml/document'
text = %{<doc><a>Some      whitespace</a>    <b>Some   more</b></doc>}
REXML::Document.new(text, { :compress_whitespace => :all }).to_s | "<doc><a>Some whitespace</a> <b>Some more</b></doc>" | "<doc><a>Some whitespace</a> <b>Some more</b></doc>" | 
| REXML::Document.new(text, { :compress_whitespace => %w{a} }).to_s | "<doc><a>Some whitespace</a> <b>Some more</b></doc>" | "<doc><a>Some whitespace</a> <b>Some more</b></doc>" | 
| REXML::Document.new(text, { :respect_whitespace => %w{a} }).to_s | "<doc><a>Some whitespace</a> <b>Some more</b></doc>" | "<doc><a>Some whitespace</a> <b>Some more</b></doc>" | 
| text = %{<doc><a>Some   text</a>\n  <b>Some   more</b>\n\n}
REXML::Document.new(text, { :compress_whitespace => :all }).to_s | "<doc><a>Some text</a>\n <b>Some more</b>\n</doc>" | "<doc><a>Some text</a>\n <b>Some more</b>\n</doc>" | 
| REXML::Document.new(text, { :compress_whitespace => :all,
	                    :ignore_whitespace_nodes => :all }).to_s | "<doc><a>Some text</a><b>Some more</b></doc>" | "<doc><a>Some text</a><b>Some more</b></doc>" |