Re: Help with XML processing using DOM


Joshua Cranmer wrote:
On Thu, 28 Jun 2007 18:57:39 -0400, Jeff Higgins wrote:
Also note that every Element node contains a Text node, so that Element
<b> is probably the next sibling of the Text node you're printing out.
Also when you print the value of this Text node it is equal to a single
whitespace because parser collapses all whitespace to a single space
unless you tell it not to.

Not necessarily. <br />'s don't contain any text nodes and writing
<a><b>Foo</b></a> gives a only one child: the b element.

Yes, thanks for correcting that.

<a><b/></a> Element node <a> contains Element node <b>

<a>
<b/>
</a> Element node <a> contains Text node and Element node <b>


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