Per the change control, I have earlier opened an issue to standardise textContent and proposed a resolution. This is the implementation of that resolution in the parser, so it can be tested and iterated upon before possibly being included in the specification.

This PHP parser was already using a special innerText method, but it was not adopted by any other parsers nor did it look like anyone wanted to write it out as part of the microformats parsing specification. This method was based on a text function of microformat-shiv, which in its turn was an emulation of Internet Explorer behaviour.

Things of note:

1. This replaces the old textContent and innerText methods. There is no replacement for innerText, the new textContent is the public method for extracting a plain text value from an element.

   The second new method elementToString is set to private as it should not be called outside of textContent. It exists on its own only so it can recursively call itself.

2. Whenever textContent is called it is no longer wrapped in a unicodeTrim call. Trimming is handled by the algorithm itself. If it turns out the current trimming in the algorithm isn’t sufficient in practice, we should revise the algorithm.

3. The new PlainTextTest currently validates all 9 examples from aaronpk/microformats-whitespace-tests.

4. This broke 3 parser tests, which have been resolved:

   1. ParseImpliedTest::testParsesImpliedNameConsistentWithPName expected a line break in the name property. With the new algorithm, line breaks are collapsed into spaces the same way browsers would do.
   2. ParserTest::testParseEResolvesRelativeLinks expected two spaces in the plain text value of the content property. With the new algorithm, consecutive spaces are collapsed to a single one the same way browsers would do.
   3. ParserTest::testHtmlEncodesImpliedProperties was… just wrong? It expected only the string <name> as the value of the name property through implied rules. And somehow it had to sidestep the <img> element completely to do so. I don’t know why the previous parsing even allowed that.