XOM API for Processing XML with Java

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

Michael Kay wrote:

> You need to think in terms of two views: the XOM view, and the XPath view.
> The merged node appears only in the XPath view, it should never be visible
> in the XOM view. An XPath expression that finds the merged node should
> return the first corresponding text node back across the API, it should not
> make the merged node visible. This way, both views of the tree are
> consistent in their own terms.

Agreed, except that it should return all the corresponding text nodes 
back across the API, not just the first one. That is if XPath text node 
A is made up of XOM Text objects t1, t2, and t3, then an XPath 
expressions that matches text node A will return a Nodes object 
containing t1, t2, and t3 in their original order.

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