We use JiBX in our current project and had the problem, that JiBX won’t trim whitespaces automatically. For example, a XML tag like <test> asdf  </test> get’s stored as “ asdf  “ instead of “asdf”.

To solve this problem, we created an user-defined formatter for Strings.

package ch.stefanjaeger.formatter; 
public class StringFormatter { 
  public static String trimString(String untrimmed) { 
    return untrimmed.trim(); 
  } 
}

Now just update the binding file of JiBX and JiBX will trim whitespaces:

<format 
deserializer="ch.stefanjaeger.formatter.StringFormatter.trimString" 
type="java.lang.String" />