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Re: Question for the XPath and DOM folks

• To: veillard@r...
• Subject: Re: Question for the XPath and DOM folks
• From: Uche Ogbuji <uche.ogbuji@f...>
• Date: Sat, 20 Jul 2002 13:50:59 -0600
• Cc: Dare Obasanjo <dareo@m...>, xml-dev@l...
• In-reply-to: Message from Daniel Veillard <veillard@r...> of "Sat, 20 Jul 2002 15:45:05 EDT." <20020720154505.A23280@r...>
• Sender: uche.ogbuji@f...

> On Sat, Jul 20, 2002 at 11:19:25AM -0700, Dare Obasanjo wrote:
> > Given the following XML in a DOM document
> >  
> > <foo>
> > bar 
> > <![CDATA[
> > baz 
> > ]]>
> > quux
> > </foo>
> > 
> > and the following XPath 
> >  
> > //text() 
> >  
> > what should be the resulting DOM nodes and why? I can think of two answers but they both have problems. 
> 
>   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."


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