Keith: see my previous post. F. On Fri, Jul 27, 2012 at 1:13 PM, Keith Creasy <kcreasy@xxxxxxx> wrote: > I haven't looked to se what parser is being used but in many cases SAX > parsing picks up any whitespace as a text node so walking through and > displaying text nodes could result in the observed behavior. Often it even > ends up including new-line chars from the XML file. Maybe I can take a look > over the weekend. > > Keith > > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: brailleblaster-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > [mailto:brailleblaster-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of John J. Boyer > Sent: Friday, July 27, 2012 1:09 PM > To: brailleblaster@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: [brailleblaster] Re: Opening XML documents > > That is probably right. I'm puzzled by the statement that "what comes out of > liblouisutdml is displayed in hthe Daisy view". It should be displayed in the > Braille view. They way I set up opening an xml file originally was that after > the file is parsed we walk through the parse tree and display any text nodes. > I didn't notice unwanted blank lines. > > John > > On Fri, Jul 27, 2012 at 04:41:47PM +0000, Keith Creasy wrote: >> You are probably having issues with whitespace outside the normal content >> elements. Some XML parsers have settings to avoid this. >> >> >> >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: brailleblaster-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx >> [mailto:brailleblaster-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of François >> Ouellette >> Sent: Friday, July 27, 2012 12:40 PM >> To: brailleblaster@xxxxxxxxxxxxx >> Subject: [brailleblaster] Re: Opening XML documents >> >> It seems that the blank lines are inserted by BB when the translation is >> done using the commands in the sem files. The daisy view displays what comes >> out of liblouisutdml, but I noticed that the code appends a newline to every >> string it receives from it, so when a 'no' command in the sem file returns a >> blank, a newline will be added. An easy fix would be to check if the value >> is an empty string and just ignore it. >> >> François. >> >> On Fri, Jul 27, 2012 at 11:53 AM, Vic Beckley <vic.beckley3@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> > François, >> > >> > Opening XML documents is working now but I still get different >> > results when I open XML or import it. It is formatted like it used >> > to be when I import it. When I open it there are many blank lines >> > that are not there when I import it. It is more like the original when >> > importing. >> > Can you duplicate this? If not, I can send you a document to try it >> > with. Why would this difference exist? >> > >> > >> > Best regards from Ohio, U.S.A., >> > >> > Vic >> > E-mail: vic.beckley3@xxxxxxxxx >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > > -- > John J. Boyer; President, Chief Software Developer Abilitiessoft, Inc. > http://www.abilitiessoft.com > Madison, Wisconsin USA > Developing software for people with disabilities > > >