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RE: Question for the XPath and DOM folks

• To: "Uche Ogbuji" <uche.ogbuji@f...>,"Garland foster" <garland_foster@s...>
• Subject: RE: Question for the XPath and DOM folks
• From: "Dare Obasanjo" <dareo@m...>
• Date: Sat, 20 Jul 2002 13:12:10 -0700
• Cc: <xml-dev@l...>
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• Thread-topic: Question for the XPath and DOM folks

-----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 

1.) Is this text node a DOM text node or some DOM incompatible XPath node?

2.) Does this node  have a parent? If so is its parent a DOM node? If so who are its children and is the returned node one of its children? 

Based on your answers to these questions I may have one or two more. 

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