question: protected void writeNodeText ( Node node ) throws IOException { String text = node . getText ( ) ; if ( ( text != null ) && ( text . length ( ) > 0 ) ) { if ( escapeText ) { text = escapeElementEntities ( text ) ; } lastOutputNodeType = Node . TEXT_NODE ; writer . write ( text ) ; } }
target:  This method is used to write out Nodes that contain text and still allow for xml:space to be handled properly.