XOM API for Processing XML with Java

[Elliotte Rusty Harold <elharo AT ibiblio.org>]

On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 8:01 AM, T Benjamins<davidbowie2nl AT yahoo.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I'm running XOM 1.2.1 and i have problems running the folloing code:
>
>
>
> for
> Node tempNode = newMVHElement.copy();
> babElement.insertChild(tempNode, insertMVHIndex);
> }
>
> i want to insert a certain Node as a new child to babElement.
> When i run this code, it gets appended at the 3rd position instead of the 
> 5th, (probably because my node array children of an Element
> contain Text(\n\t) and Node objects, so it gets inserted at position 5 in 
> the array, but apparently that's position 2
> ) When i multiply the desired insertion index by 2 it works as expected.
>
> This is  a bug? Or am i dong something horribly wrong in loading the 
> document??


It sounds like you're not properly accounting for text nodes
containing white space, but without a complete sample program
demonstrating the behavior I can't really say for sure.

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Elliotte Rusty Harold
elharo AT ibiblio.org