XOM API for Processing XML with Java

[Elliotte Rusty Harold <elharo AT metalab.unc.edu>]

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