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Functionality Added: Implemented the normalize function within the Node class.
Purpose: Merges adjacent text nodes and removes empty text nodes to clean up the DOM structure.
Methodology:

  • Traverses the childNodes list of a node.
  • Merges the content of adjacent text nodes.
  • Removes empty text nodes from the list.
  • Recursively normalizes child nodes for non-text nodes.

TypeScript Compliance: Ensured type safety by handling potential null values in nodeValue.

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b-fuze commented Jun 26, 2024

Hey Ethan, please add tests and run deno fmt


// Merge adjacent text nodes
while (nextNode && nextNode.nodeType === NodeType.TEXT_NODE) {
if (currentNode.nodeValue) {
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You don't need this if, adding an empty string would have the same effect

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Also, noticing that this if will drop the text from non-empty text nodes that follow empty text nodes

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Also, following the standard algorithm outlined here if any of the first text nodes found before others is empty then it's deleted and then the first non-empty text node will receive your currentNode treatment as you have here

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