protected function handle_garbage_chars()

in classes/api/base.php [1212:1236]

• 19 lines of code
• 4 McCabe index (conditional complexity)

    protected function handle_garbage_chars($xpath) {
        $garbagenodes = $xpath->query("//p[contains(., '')]");

        if ($garbagenodes) {
            $count = $garbagenodes->length;
            $index = 0;

            while ($index < $count) {
                $garbagenode = $garbagenodes->item($index);

                // Count the number of garbage char sequences in the node value.
                $nodevalue = $garbagenode->nodeValue;
                $replaced = 0;
                $nodevalue = str_replace("", "", $nodevalue, $replaced);
                $garbagenode->nodeValue = $nodevalue;

                while ($replaced-- > 0) {
                    $pnode = new \DOMElement('p', '&nbsp;');
                    $garbagenode->parentNode->insertBefore($pnode, $garbagenode->nextSibling);
                }

                $index++;
            }
        }
    }