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Re: Question for the XPath and DOM folks

• To: Uche Ogbuji <uche.ogbuji@f...>
• Subject: Re: Question for the XPath and DOM folks
• From: Daniel Veillard <veillard@r...>
• Date: Sat, 20 Jul 2002 20:24:18 -0400
• Cc: Dare Obasanjo <dareo@m...>, xml-dev@l...
• In-reply-to: <E17W0G7-00060p-00@m...>; from uche.ogbuji@f... on Sat, Jul 20, 2002 at 01:50:59PM -0600
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On Sat, Jul 20, 2002 at 01:50:59PM -0600, Uche Ogbuji wrote:
> >   Well the theorical answer is that XPath operates on an XPath
> > data model, not a DOM view. Your question has no answer, XPath is not
> > designed to work on a standard DOM tree, CDATA are transparently
> > turned in (the container) text node.
> 
> Maybe you're right, but to my reading, the following statement in the spec 
> seems to give the definitive answer:
> 
> "...a text node never has an immediately following  or preceding sibling that 
> is a text node."

  We agree in fact, maybe I didn't explained myself clearly enough.
Yes I expect the resulting nodeset to contain a single text node with
the 3 lines collapsed together.

Daniel

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