> This looks like the original author knew this was a problem, guarded against
> it, but never came back to fix it.
Not quite, I realized a more complete solution goes into the realms of custom
application logic.
So I found the problem which was: the `text*` getter was incomplete.
All node kinds (other than `xnElement`) have an `fText` property. That's why
there was as guard assertion in place which is what was causing the crash as I
was trying to get the text of an `xnElement`.
`xnElement` stores it's
I had considered the same work around. However the purpose of the
[`text`](https://nim-lang.org/docs/xmltree.html#text%2CXmlNode) proc is stated
as: "Gets the associated text with the node `n`"
TBH I would rather spend a week trying to figure out how to fix `xmltree` and
submit a PR than code a
You can build your own proc that only returns text from children of kind xnText:
import xmltree
var e = newElement("child1")
e.add newText(" jibber")
var f = newElement("child2")
f.add newText(" jabber")
var x = newXmlTree("root", [e, f])
x.add n
I opted against `innerText` because it does indeed return the text of the node
and all it's children:
import xmltree
var e = newElement("child1")
e.add newText(" jibber")
var f = newElement("child2")
f.add newText(" jabber")
var x = newXmlTree("root
to access text content of a generic `XmlNode` you can use
[innerText](https://nim-lang.org/docs/xmltree.html#innerText%2CXmlNode).
The node you create is not of kind `xnText` and so it does not have a `text`
attribute. It does have a child (it can have multiple children), which is of
kind `xnTe
ionDefect]
Error: execution of an external program failed:
/Users/_/Projects/my-nim/src/x
Run
It looks like you can't directly access the text portion of an XmlNode type.
Have I misread the docs or is there something else going on?
Thanks
PS: macos arm64 FWIW
