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8/2/02 12:54:53 PM, Mike Brown <mike@s...> wrote: >Although you know the element contains a single string of character data, >'Shipping Address (< 31)', a parser, acting on the lexical constructs it >encounters, is likely, though not required, to report this as 3 calls to >characters() in the case of SAX, or as 3 adjacent text nodes in the case of >DOM. This is normal behavior. In SAX you just have to live with it. In DOM you >may have the option of normalizing the text beforehand; check the DOM specs >and docs for your parser. Correct in the case of SAX; the spec explicitly says that characters() may deliver its results in chunks. Incorrect in the case of DOM; the spec says that a parser must represent contiguous text as a single node when creating a DOM and that adjacent text nodes in a DOM can only arise out of subsequent manipulation.
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