question: static private char [ ] skipWhitespacesPrefix ( char [ ] data ) { for ( int i = 0 ; i < data . length ; i ++ ) { if ( ! XMLChar . isSpace ( data [ i ] ) ) { if ( i == 0 ) { return data ; } else { return Arrays . copyOfRange ( data , i , data . length ) ; } } } return new char [ 0 ] ; }
target:  Private method that skips whitespaces at the beginning of the data.