Automatic trimming?

[tiloc]

I am parsing XML with lots of text nodes. It is split out into multiple lines. Like

Text goes here...

Now when I access the .text property of a node to get the text it comes with a lot of leading and trailing line breaks and tabs. Of course I can call trim() on each and every one, but could the parser get an option to automatically return trimmed text?

[renggli]

You can easily do that as part of a transformation step after parsing:

final document = XmlDocument.parse(input);

// Trim all the text nodes
for (final node in document.descendants.whereType<XmlText>()) {
  node.replace(XmlText(node.text.trim()));
}

Possibly you also want to normalize the document afterwards (remove empty text nodes):

document.normalize();

[tiloc]

Thanks! That works great for me!