Regexp to search/replace only text, not in HTML attribute

Question

I\'m using JavaScript to do some regular expression. Considering I\'m working with well-formed source, and I want to remove any space before[,.] and keep only one space afte

Answer 1

If you can access that text through the DOM, you can do this:

function fixPunctuation(elem) {
    // check if parameter is a an ELEMENT_NODE
    if (!(elem instanceof Node) || elem.nodeType !== Node.ELEMENT_NODE) return;
    var children = elem.childNodes, node;
    // iterate the child nodes of the element node
    for (var i=0; children[i]; ++i) {
        node = children[i];
        // check the child’s node type
        switch (node.nodeType) {
        case Node.ELEMENT_NODE:
            // call fixPunctuation if it’s also an ELEMENT_NODE
            fixPunctuation(node);
            break;
        case Node.TEXT_NODE:
            // fix punctuation if it’s a TEXT_NODE
            node.nodeValue = node.nodeValue.replace(/ *(,|\.) *([^ 0-9])/g, '$1 $2');
            break;
        }
    }
}

Now just pass the DOM node to that function like this:

fixPunctuation(document.body);
fixPunctuation(document.getElementById("foobar"));