## net.sf.saxon.value
Class Whitespace

    java.lang.Object
      net.sf.saxon.value.Whitespace

    public class Whitespace

extends Object

This class provides helper methods and constants for handling whitespace

Field Summary
`static int` `ALL`
`static int` `COLLAPSE`
`static int` `IGNORABLE`
`static int` `NONE` The values NONE, IGNORABLE, and ALL identify which kinds of whitespace text node should be stripped when building a source tree.
`static int` `PRESERVE` The values PRESERVE, REPLACE, and COLLAPSE represent the three options for whitespace normalization.
`static int` `REPLACE`
`static int` `UNSPECIFIED`
`static int` `XSLT`

Method Summary
`static CharSequence` `applyWhitespaceNormalization(int action, CharSequence value)` Apply schema-defined whitespace normalization to a string
`static CharSequence` `collapseWhitespace(CharSequence in)` Collapse whitespace as defined in XML Schema.
`static boolean` `containsWhitespace(CharSequence value)` Determine if a string contains any whitespace
`static boolean` `isWhite(CharSequence content)` Determine if a string is all-whitespace
`static boolean` `isWhitespace(int ch)` Test whether a character is whitespace
`static CharSequence` `normalizeWhitespace(CharSequence in)` Normalize whitespace as defined in XML Schema.
`static CharSequence` `removeAllWhitespace(CharSequence value)` Remove all whitespace characters from a string
`static CharSequence` `removeLeadingWhitespace(CharSequence value)` Remove leading whitespace characters from a string
`static String` `trim(CharSequence s)` Trim leading and trailing whitespace from a string, returning a string.
`static CharSequence` `trimWhitespace(CharSequence in)` Remove leading and trailing whitespace.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object
`clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait`

Field Detail

### PRESERVE

    public static final int PRESERVE

  The values PRESERVE, REPLACE, and COLLAPSE represent the three options for whitespace normalization. They are deliberately chosen in ascending strength order; given a number of whitespace facets, only the strongest needs to be carried out.

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### REPLACE

    public static final int REPLACE

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### COLLAPSE

    public static final int COLLAPSE

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### NONE

    public static final int NONE

  The values NONE, IGNORABLE, and ALL identify which kinds of whitespace text node should be stripped when building a source tree. UNSPECIFIED indicates that no particular request has been made. XSLT indicates that whitespace should be stripped as defined by the xsl:strip-space and xsl:preserve-space declarations in the stylesheet

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### IGNORABLE

    public static final int IGNORABLE

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### ALL

    public static final int ALL

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### UNSPECIFIED

    public static final int UNSPECIFIED

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### XSLT

    public static final int XSLT

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Method Detail

### isWhitespace

    public static boolean isWhitespace(int ch)

  Test whether a character is whitespace

  Parameters:
    `ch` - the character (Unicode codepoint) to be tested
  Returns:
    true if the character is one of tab, newline, carriage return, or space

### applyWhitespaceNormalization

    public static CharSequence applyWhitespaceNormalization(int action,
                                                            CharSequence value)

  Apply schema-defined whitespace normalization to a string

  Parameters:
    `action` - the action to be applied: one of PRESERVE, REPLACE, or COLLAPSE
    `value` - the value to be normalized
  Returns:
    the value after normalization

### removeAllWhitespace

    public static CharSequence removeAllWhitespace(CharSequence value)

  Remove all whitespace characters from a string

  Parameters:
    `value` - the string from which whitespace is to be removed
  Returns:
    the string without its whitespace. This may be the original value if it contained no whitespace

### removeLeadingWhitespace

    public static CharSequence removeLeadingWhitespace(CharSequence value)

  Remove leading whitespace characters from a string

  Parameters:
    `value` - the string whose leading whitespace is to be removed
  Returns:
    the string with leading whitespace removed. This may be the original string if there was no leading whitespace

### containsWhitespace

    public static boolean containsWhitespace(CharSequence value)

  Determine if a string contains any whitespace

  Parameters:
    `value` - the string to be tested
  Returns:
    true if the string contains a character that is XML whitespace, that is tab, newline, carriage return, or space

### isWhite

    public static boolean isWhite(CharSequence content)

  Determine if a string is all-whitespace

  Parameters:
    `content` - the string to be tested
  Returns:
    true if the supplied string contains no non-whitespace characters

### normalizeWhitespace

    public static CharSequence normalizeWhitespace(CharSequence in)

  Normalize whitespace as defined in XML Schema. Note that this is not the same as the XPath normalize-space() function, which is supported by the `collapseWhitespace(java.lang.CharSequence)` method

  Parameters:
    `in` - the string to be normalized
  Returns:
    a copy of the string in which any whitespace character is replaced by a single space character

### collapseWhitespace

    public static CharSequence collapseWhitespace(CharSequence in)

  Collapse whitespace as defined in XML Schema. This is equivalent to the XPath normalize-space() function

  Parameters:
    `in` - the string whose whitespace is to be collapsed
  Returns:
    the string with any leading or trailing whitespace removed, and any internal sequence of whitespace characters replaced with a single space character.

### trimWhitespace

    public static CharSequence trimWhitespace(CharSequence in)

  Remove leading and trailing whitespace. This has the same effect as collapseWhitespace, but is cheaper, for use by data types that do not allow internal whitespace.

  Parameters:
    `in` - the input string whose whitespace is to be removed
  Returns:
    the result of removing excess whitespace

### trim

    public static String trim(CharSequence s)

  Trim leading and trailing whitespace from a string, returning a string. This differs from the Java trim() method in that the only characters treated as whitespace are space, \n, \r, and \t. The String#trim() method removes all C0 control characters (which is not the same thing under XML 1.1).

  Parameters:
    `s` - the string to be trimmed. If null is supplied, null is returned.
  Returns:
    the string with leading and trailing whitespace removed.

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