On Fri, 26 Aug 2005 12:13:10 +0200, "Diez B. Roggisch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Richard Lewis wrote: > > > > I admit I haven't tried very much code yet, but I'm not sure how I'm > > going to handle situations like: the user wants to insert a link in the > > middle of a paragraph. How can I use the DOM to insert a node into the > > middle of some text? Am I right in thinking that the DOM will reference > > a whole text node but nothing smaller? > > You have to split the text-node, and add the two resulting noedes > together with the new link-node (or whatever node you want there, can be > a whole tree) in the correct order to the parent of the two node. If > unsure what that means, create two simple documents and parse these to > dom to see how that works. > Thanks. I was kind of worried it might be like that!
I'm implementing a Cursor class now which keeps track of the current parent Element, text node and character position so that I can easily (I hope ;-) work out where the splitting and inserting needs to occur. Wish me luck!! Cheers, Richard -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
