method

whitespace

ruby latest stable - Class: REXML::Element

whitespace()

public

Evaluates to true if whitespace is respected for this element. This is the case if:

Neither :respect_whitespace nor :compress_whitespace has any value
The context has :respect_whitespace set to :all or an array containing the name of this element, and :compress_whitespace isn’t set to :all or an array containing the name of this element.

The evaluation is tested against expanded_name, and so is namespace sensitive.

# File lib/rexml/element.rb, line 146
    def whitespace
      @whitespace = nil
      if @context
        if @context[:respect_whitespace]
          @whitespace = (@context[:respect_whitespace] == :all or
                         @context[:respect_whitespace].include? expanded_name)
        end
        @whitespace = false if (@context[:compress_whitespace] and
                                (@context[:compress_whitespace] == :all or
                                 @context[:compress_whitespace].include? expanded_name)
                               )
      end
      @whitespace = true unless @whitespace == false
      @whitespace
    end

whitespace

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