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> Given that the DOM allows adjacent Text nodes unless > normalise() is called, and CDATASection nodes extend > the interfaces of Text, how would your processing > change if you just dealt with Text alone? After I get the tree, I call normalize() on it. Suppose my processing is to count people whose first name is "Karl", in a document like <people><person><first>Karl</first><last>Käfer</last></person></people> Then I'd do karls = 0 root.normalize() for person in root.getElementsByTagName("person"): first = person.getElementsByTagName("first")[0] for n in first.childNodes: if n.nodeType == Node.TEXT_NODE and n.data == "Karl": break else: continue karl += 1 Now, if there are CDATA sections in there, this algorithm will break: the string Karl could still be split across several nodes. Regards, Martin
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