XOM API for Processing XML with Java

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

shirasu hiroyuki wrote:

> Do you mean "child::text()[2]" in your XPath expression?
> "child::*" select all element children, but not text nodes.

Oops. Yes.


> For the XPath "./text()",
> We expect one text node with "helloworldnux",
> but Nux returns three text nodes.

I tend to think NUX ix correct here. If NUX returned one Text object it 
would have to be a different Text object than the ones actually present 
in the document. The mismatch between XOM and XPath in respect to 
adjacent text nodes/objects means that an XPath text node does not 
always map in a one-to-one fashion with a XOM Text object. Adjacent Text 
objects may together form a single text node and th XPath engine needs 
to so treat them.

Hmm, I think I'm beginning to see how to make this work. It should just 
be a simple adjustment to the various navigation functions in the 
navigator class (or equivalent). It may not be as hard to get this right 
as I feared. Then again, it may be. I haven't actually done this yet.

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