XOM API for Processing XML with Java

["David Ondzes" <dao AT pobox.com>]

On 3/5/07, Elliotte Harold <elharo AT metalab.unc.edu> wrote:
> David Ondzes wrote:
> > Is ParentNode::getChildCount() suppose to return 1 when it has parsed
> > something like this below ? Or should it be returning 0 ?
> >
> > <foo>
> > </foo>
>
> 1. There's a text node in there that consists of white space. If you
> parsed <foo></foo> you'd get 0 for the child count.

When I get child count of 1 how can i determine if my xml was
<foo>
</foo>

or
<foo>

> > Also, the count return by this member function is different then what
> > I am expect. It is returning a number much higher.
>
> I expect you're ignoring text nodes.

Ah. I XOM was returning 2C+1 children when I was expecting C.