[svn r3219] r3348@delle: sbehnel | 2008-01-28 10:39:23 +0100

 let objectify.makeparser() create a 'remove_blank_text' XML parser by default

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branch : trunk

1 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/src/lxml/lxml.objectify.pyx b/src/lxml/lxml.objectify.pyx
index 31268655..5c9722cb 100644
--- a/src/lxml/lxml.objectify.pyx
+++ b/src/lxml/lxml.objectify.pyx
@@ -1627,8 +1627,12 @@ def makeparser(**kw):
     """Create a new XML parser for objectify trees.
 
     You can pass all keyword arguments that are supported by
-    ``etree.XMLParser()``.
+    ``etree.XMLParser()``.  Note that this parser defaults to removing
+    blank text.  You can disable this by passing the
+    ``remove_blank_text`` boolean keyword option yourself.
     """
+    if 'remove_blank_text' not in kw:
+        kw['remove_blank_text'] = True
     parser = etree.XMLParser(**kw)
     parser.set_element_class_lookup( ObjectifyElementClassLookup() )
     return parser