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Ronald Bourret wrote:
> Lucio Piccoli wrote:
>
> >From the XML DOM spec it seems that with an element containing an entity
> >reference is treated as 3 separated elements
> >
> >ie.
> ><body> Paul & Jenny</body>
> >
> >Text Node-> Paul
> >EntityReference-> amp
> >Text Node-> Jenny
> >
> >My question is how does one programmatically handle the extraction of the
> >entire element?
>
> By hand -- you store the string from the first text node, then add on the
> string from the entity, then add on the string from the second text node.
>
> Note that the DOM has a normalize() method for joining sibling text nodes.
> Unfortunately, this still leaves CDATA nodes, entity references, comments,
> etc. in place. What this method really needs is a flag that will normalize
> all "logical" sibling text -- remove comments, expand entities, join the
> resulting text nodes, etc.
>
This would be a really useful function to be implemented as a SAX
filter, if this hasn't been done already.
Jonathan Borden
http://www.openhealth.org
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