What is normalizing in XML?

[sivasu.india]

Hi,

Can anybody explain me what is normalizing in XML with an
Example.What is the use of the following method in Node interface in
org.w3c.dom

public void normalize()


What this method will do? Can anyone explain me with an example?

 

[Joshua Cranmer]

Hi,

Can anybody explain me what is normalizing in XML with an
Example.What is the use of the following method in Node interface in
org.w3c.dom

public void normalize()


What this method will do? Can anyone explain me with an example?

What this method does is combine all adjacent text nodes into one, via
something like this pseudocode:

for all nodes which have this node as an ancestor:
if node is a text node:
if nextSibling is a text node:
append nextSibling.nodeValue to my nodeValue
remove nextSibling from tree