/* Copyright 2004 Elliotte Rusty Harold
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* Utility methods for merging all consecutive text nodes. *
* * @author Elliotte Rusty Harold * @version 1.0 * */ public class TextMerger { public static void merge(ParentNode parent) { for (int i = 0; i < parent.getChildCount(); i++) { Node child = parent.getChild(i); if (child instanceof Text) { StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder(child.getValue()); Node nextChild; while ((nextChild = parent.getChild(i+1)) instanceof Text) { sb.append(nextChild.getValue()); parent.removeChild(nextChild); if (i+1 == parent.getChildCount()) break; } if (sb.length() == 0) parent.removeChild(child); else parent.replaceChild(child, new Text(sb.toString())); } else if (child instanceof Element) { merge((ParentNode) child); } } } }