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Diffstat (limited to 'lib/rexml/document.rb')
| -rw-r--r-- | lib/rexml/document.rb | 7 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/lib/rexml/document.rb b/lib/rexml/document.rb index 1eefaea92a..52500f2afd 100644 --- a/lib/rexml/document.rb +++ b/lib/rexml/document.rb @@ -145,7 +145,10 @@ module REXML # indentation will be this number of spaces, and children will be # indented an additional amount. Defaults to -1 # transitive:: - # What the heck does this do? Defaults to false + # If transitive is true and indent is >= 0, then the output will be + # pretty-printed in such a way that the added whitespace does not affect + # the absolute *value* of the document -- that is, it leaves the value + # and number of Text nodes in the document unchanged. # ie_hack:: # Internet Explorer is the worst piece of crap to have ever been # written, with the possible exception of Windows itself. Since IE is @@ -191,7 +194,7 @@ module REXML build_context[-1] << event[1] else build_context.add( - Text.new( event[1], true, nil, true ) + Text.new( event[1], build_context.whitespace, nil, true ) ) unless ( event[1].strip.size==0 and build_context.ignore_whitespace_nodes |