XOM API for Processing XML with Java

[Wolfgang Hoschek <whoschek AT lbl.gov>]

Forgot to mention that if the query is "text {.}" the result sequence  
contains a single coalesced text node with a value of "helloworldnux".

Wolfgang.

On Jan 6, 2005, at 4:36 PM, Wolfgang Hoschek wrote:

> Quoting the saxon documentation
>
> http://www.saxonica.com/documentation/documentation.html
> then click on Standards Conformance/Conformance with other  
> specifications:
>
> > When a DOM, JDOM, or XOM tree is supplied as the transformation  
> > input, Saxon does not combine adjacent  text nodes into a single  
> > node. Adjacent text nodes can occur as the result of user  
> > modifications to the  tree, or as a result of the presence of CDATA  
> > sections or entity references, depending on the options  in force  
> > when the tree was constructed.
> >
> >  When a DOM, JDOM, or XOM tree is supplied as the transformation  
> > input, Saxon does not take the xml:space  attribute into  
> > consideration when deciding whether or not to strip whitespace text  
> > nodes.
>
> Hence, the following Nux example:
>
> Element elem = new Element("elem");
> elem.appendChild("hello");
> elem.appendChild("world");
> elem.appendChild("nux");
>
> Nodes results = new XQuery(".", null).execute(elem).toNodes();
> for (int i=0; i < results.size(); i++) {
>         System.out.println("i="+i+":" + results.get(i).toXML());
> }
>
> returns:
>
> i=0:<elem>helloworldnux</elem>
>
> with the returned element having 3 Text nodes.
>
> Wolfgang.
>
> On Jan 6, 2005, at 3:27 PM, Elliotte Harold wrote:
>
> > I forgot the nastiest problem:
> >
> > How do I handle non-coalesced, adjacent text nodes? XPath doesn't  
> > allow them and XOM does. This could royally muck up predicates based  
> > on position. And what if someone selects one. What do I return? How  
> > do NUX and Saxon and Jaxen handle this?
> >
> > --  
> > Elliotte Rusty Harold  elharo AT metalab.unc.edu
> > XML in a Nutshell 3rd Edition Just Published!
> > http://www.cafeconleche.org/books/xian3/
> > http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=0596007647/cafeaulaitA/ 
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