You'll probably just have to remove them manually with a recursive function.
Here's some pseudocode:
removeLeafTextNodes(branch){
removed = false
for(child in branch){
if(!removed && child instanceof Element){
removed = true
removeAllTextNodeChildren(element)
}
if(child instanceof Branch) removeLeafTextNodes(child)
}
}
Naveen Murthy wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> Recently I migrated an xml app that used JDOM to dom4j(1.6.1),
> and benefitted greatly by having a significantly lesser
> footprint and faster xpaths.
>
> But there is one difference im observing in the old JDOM vs DOM4j
>
> "When an element is having a child element + a textnode,
> im seeing that the old JDOM is totally ignoring the textnode.
> But dom4j is not doing the same."
>
> example:
> <test><abc></abc>naveen</test>
>
> when above string is Parsed into a DOM document --
> jdom neglects the textnode "naveen" all together. it only creates a
> DOM for <test><abc></abc></test>
> where as- dom4j, keeps the textnode under the element 'test'
>
>
> Id assume that DOM4j is doing the right thing by keeing the textnode,
> but is there any way to tell DOM4j to ignore such textnodes ( non leaf
> textnodes )?
>
>
> Ps:
> :-) as a dev, i want to stick with the right thing; and try to prevent
> "naveen' from being there in the first place ( which is appln bug)
> but the Mgmt guys, want only "xml layer" changed ( ie, jdom to dom4j )
> and rest LEFT ALONE..
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