RE: Implementing a (fairly) complex business rule

A special case is what one might call "abnormal mixed content", where the
structure is that of mixed content but the semantics are unorthodox: for
example

 <date>2008-09-30
  <source>estimated</source>
  <calendar>Gregorian</calendar>
 </date>

(It would be more usual to use attributes here rather than child elements;
but one also sees comments used.) In such a case you may need to find the
text node (or all the text nodes) explicitly using path expressions.

Cheers,
Wendell

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