XOM API for Processing XML with Java

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

norwoods wrote:

> if xml does not allow adjacent text nodes and xom only allows correct 
> xml, shouldn't a xom text node insert operation adjacent to an existing 
> text node combine the strings into the existing text node?  would this 
> not eliminate the xpath problem?

It's not XML that doesn't allow adjacent text nodes. It's XPath. At one 
point early on I had planned to make XOM disallow (or automerge) 
adjacent text nodes just to avoid this problem. However, I was convinced 
otherwise. At this point, though, I think I'm sticking to my guns. XPath 
is defined on a data model that does not allow adjacent text nodes, and 
to query XOM with XPath we need to account for that.

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