[DXML-13] Support for preserving whitespace between tags

Sun, 10 Feb 2013 04:35:46 -0600

XML parsers can support preserving white space nodes, but clojure.data.xml does not seem to support this functionality.

For example, the following should be able to return true (perhaps with an option to parse-str):

Desired Behavior

(= (clojure.data.xml/element :x {}
                             (clojure.data.xml/element :a {} "foo")
                             " "
                             (clojure.data.xml/element :a {} "bar"))
   (clojure.data.xml/parse-str
     (str "<?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"UTF-8\"?>"
          "<x>"
          "<a>foo</a>"
          " "
          "<a>bar</a>"
          "</x>")))
;=> true

This is the current behavior:

Current Behavior

(= (clojure.data.xml/element :x {}
                             (clojure.data.xml/element :a {} "foo")
                             (clojure.data.xml/element :a {} "bar"))
   (clojure.data.xml/parse-str
     (str "<?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"UTF-8\"?>"
          "<x>"
          "<a>foo</a>"
          " "
          "<a>bar</a>"
          "</x>")))
;=> true

Clojure JIRA

[DXML-13] Support for preserving whitespace between tags