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  • From: Elliotte Rusty Harold <elharo AT metalab.unc.edu>
  • To: Dick H <dick AT machj.com>, xom-interest AT lists.ibiblio.org
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  • Subject: Re: [XOM-interest] Element.getValue()
  • Date: Thu, 22 May 2003 12:42:54 -0400

At 11:10 AM -0500 5/22/03, Dick H wrote:
I am using 1.0d12, my first experience with XOM and am overjoyed.

Found one nuisance with Element.getValue() when applied to an Element that has both Text and Element children. I want just the concatonation of the Text nodes in the current Element. getValue() includes even the non-Text child nodes. Don't want that.


Can you give me a use-case of why you'd want just the Text nodes, irrespective of all the child elements? This seems to me quite unusual and perhaps dangerous.

(note: getValue doesn't include all the child nodes. It skips comments and processing instructions)
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Elliotte Rusty Harold
elharo AT metalab.unc.edu
Processing XML with Java (Addison-Wesley, 2002)
http://www.cafeconleche.org/books/xmljava
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN%3D0201771861/cafeaulaitA




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