NAME

       XML::Normalize::LibXML - simple whitespace striping functions

SYNOPSIS

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

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

DESCRIPTION

       This module provides simple whitespace striping and text-node normalizing functions.

   "trim($string)"
       Returns the string with any whitespace occuring at its beginning or end removed.

   "xml_normalize($dom)"
       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, CDATA
       sections, and entity references) separates Text nodes, i.e., there are no adjacent Text
       nodes. This can be used to ensure that the DOM 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.

   "xml_strip_whitespace($dom [,$include_attributes])"
       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.

   "xml_strip_element($node)"
       Removes leading and trailing whitespace from a given element.

AUTHOR

       Petr Pajas, pajas@matfyz.cz

COPYRIGHT

       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.

SEE ALSO

       XML::LibXML