xml question

[Ivan Herman]

I think this is a bug in your python call. AFAIK, 'string.strip(str)' 
*returns a copy of a string with stripped whitespace*. Ie, it does not 
affect the original string, in this case the nodeValue...

Ivan


Ajay wrote:

> hi!
> 
> i am trying to remove all whitespace elements out of a document.
> 
> my code is below
> 
> def stripWhiteSpaces(doc):
> 	whiteSpaces = xpath.Evaluate("//text()", doc.documentElement)
> 	counter=0
> 	while(counter< len(whiteSpaces)):
> 		str = whiteSpaces[counter].nodeValue
> 		string.strip(str)
> 		if len(str) == 0:
> 	       whiteSpaces[counter].parentNode.removeChild(whiteSpaces[counter])
> 
> 		counter += 1
> 	return doc
> 
> however this isn't working. when i print out all the elements in the
> document, i still get the whitespace text elements.
> what am i doing wrong?
> 
> thanks
> 
> cheers
> 
> 
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