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> Xpath queries with side-effects to a DOM tree ? Umm. No. When did I say that? It's meaningless. XPath is read-only. > Please don't even mention it > :-) > As a developer I'd prefer text-normalizing the DOM tree before applying an > Xpath query. This is pretty much what I was saying: the DOM binding to XPath would do the normalization and other mutation. Not XPath itself, of course. Mind you, there is more to the mutation than just text normalization: there is entity reference flattening, notation and doctype node elimination, attribute child node elimination, etc. I hope you're not saying you'd want to do all this by hand, "As a developer"? -- Uche Ogbuji Fourthought, Inc. http://uche.ogbuji.net http://4Suite.org http://fourthought.com Track chair, XML/Web Services One Boston: http://www.xmlconference.com/ The many heads of XML modeling - http://adtmag.com/article.asp?id=6393 Will XML live up to its promise? - http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/xml/li brary/x-think11.html
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