xml question

[Ajay]

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

 

[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

 

[Tim Arnold]

str = whiteSpaces[counter].nodeValue
string.strip(str)

however this isn't working. when i print out all the elements in the
document, i still get the whitespace text elements.

shouldn't str.strip() work instead?
--T