Looking at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Text_normalization - I don't buy the 'usually' below. I think it's largely a 'what you make decide it means' world. Leaving the code unchanged.
Hen On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 7:04 PM, Henri Yandell <flame...@gmail.com> wrote: > An item of feedback from Joerg Wassmer's comment to a Javalobby article: > > (http://java.dzone.com/articles/first-look-at-commons-lang-3) > > "normalizeSpace" should by called "collapse" or alike. "Normalizing" > usually is only the task where the string is getting trimmed, and > where each whitespace and control character is getting replaced by a > space. Normalizing plus the replacement of subsequent whitespaces by a > single space is called "collapsing". See > javax.xml.bind.annotation.adapters.CollapsedStringAdapter and > NormalizedStringAdapter. > > Referring to StringUtils. > > I don't know about the 'usually', but I do like the name collapse. > > Hen > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org
