XML Space Stripper

Usage

To use this program, select input and output files using the appropriate buttons. Start the program by clicking the Go button. If all goes well, the window should display some statistics. Otherwise, it will show you a list of errors, as generated by the Xerces parser.

The meaning of the various controls is as follows:

• Strip whitespace according to DTD or Schema
  If this box is checked, whitespace content of element-only content models will be stripped. In other words, if the content model of an element only allows child elements, intervening whitespace will be stripped. However, if the attribute xml:space="preserve" was specified on the element, all whitespace is preserved.
• Strip whitespace according to Convention
  If this box is checked, whitespace content directly following an open tag and whitespace directly preceding a closing tag is stripped, also in case of mixed content models. However, if the attribute xml:space="preserve" was specified on the element, all whitespace is preserved. Note that non-breaking spaces do not count as whitespace.
  
  As an example, the following XML sample:
  <p>  aaaa  <b>  bbbb  </b>  cccc  </p>
  will be transformed into:
  <p>aaaa  <b>bbbb</b>  cccc</p>
• Suppress parser messages for warnings/errors
  Use the boxes to suppres output from the Xerces parser.
• Output character encoding
  This listbox specifies the encoding for the output file. Note that ISO-8859-12 was omitted on purpose. There is no UTF-16 yet due to lack of knowledge on how to deal with big endian and little endian BOM characters.
• Character references in Decimal, Hexadecimal or HEXADECIMAL
  This listbox specifies the digits used for character references. For example, character nummer 255 can be written as ÿ, ÿ or ÿ respectively.
• Character references only if needed, for characters > 126, for characters > 255
  This listbox specifies when to use normal characters and when to use character references instead. Note that this setting will be silently adjusted if the encoding requires it.

Acknowledgements

This tiny program was brought to you by Pieter Masereeuw (http://www.masereeuw.nl).

The parser used by this program is the Java Xerces parser (http://xerces.apache.org/xerces-j/).