XOM API for Processing XML with Java

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

Wolfgang Hoschek wrote:

> > Thus, I continue to think that an explicit ParentNode.normalizeTexts() 
> > is the best way, if any. This approach is easy to understand, works, 
> > and few real use cases needs the text merging functionality anyway.

nu.xom.samples.TextMerger already does this. However I don't think this 
is adequate. The query //data/child::text()[1] should return the same 
text whether the data element contains consecutive text nodes or not. 
Requiring the user to perform an explicit merge step (that they may not 
even want) to get correct XPath resolution does not feel like good 
design. I want minimum requirements on the user. They give XOM the XPath 
as a string. XOM gives them back the matching nodes.

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