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RE: Question for the XPath and DOM folks

• To: Dare Obasanjo <dareo@m...>
• Subject: RE: Question for the XPath and DOM folks
• From: "J. David Eisenberg" <catcode@c...>
• Date: Sat, 20 Jul 2002 15:41:49 -0500 (CDT)
• Cc: Uche Ogbuji <uche.ogbuji@f...>, Garland foster <garland_foster@s...>, <xml-dev@l...>
• In-reply-to: <8BD7226E07DDFF49AF5EF4030ACE0B7E06621E05@r...>

On Sat, 20 Jul 2002, Dare Obasanjo wrote:

> -----Original Message----- 
> From: Uche Ogbuji [mailto:uche.ogbuji@f...] 
> Sent: Sat 7/20/2002 1:04 PM 
> To: Garland foster 
> Cc: Dare Obasanjo; xml-dev@l... 
> Subject: Re:  Question for the XPath and DOM folks 
> 
> >Than there can only be one answer to Dare's question, which is what I gave.
> 
> Let's explore your answer then. So if I have a W3C XML Document Object Model (DOM) implementation containing the XML 
> 
>  <foo> bar <![CDATA[ baz ]]> quux </foo>
> 
> and query it with the following XPath 
> 
> //text() 
> 
> I should get back a single text node containing "bar baz quux". So a few
> questions from an application programmer

Before you even get into those questions, consider Thomas Passin's post, 
which said:

>Results:
> 
>===> msxml3:
> 
>bar
> 
>===> Saxon and Xalan (and Sablotron and XT):
> 
>bar
> 
>baz
> 
>quux
>
>Putting the "//text()" up in the select attribute of the template works
>the same in all three (it returns all three strings).
> 
>This is a bit unnerving - what else does msxml3 disagree with the others
>on that could lead to a really big difference?

As I see it, that's a much more important question to answer rather than
whether it's a DOM node or who its parents and children are.

[snip]

-- 
J. David Eisenberg  http://catcode.com/

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