It looks like these methods are internal callbacks for document validation.
Perhaps they shouldn't really be public. I guess they have to negotiate
other packages. Having a look at the API docs for DOMParser and the
interface org.apache.xerces.framework.XMLDocumentHandler convinces me that I
don't want to go close to that code unless I really have to.

-----Original Message-----
From: Igor PARTL [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, 21 November 2001 3:53 a.m.
To: Xerces-J-User
Subject: Re: whitespaceIgnoring (on/off)


Hi!


On Mon, Nov 19, 2001 at 01:45:01PM +1300, Craig Collings wrote:

Thanks a lot for your answer.

> But remember... Once you have a DOM from the parser, the
> nodevalue of the element is NOT 'Hey!' or '\n Hey \n'. In fact the
> direct nodevalue of any Element is null. (I assume we are using
> org.apache.dom)

Jepp, so it is.

> The text that we would think is the nodevalue of an element is held
> as the nodevalue of a Text node which is a child of the Element. So
> we have to get a NodeList from Element, iterate thru it till we find
> a (non-whitespace) Text node and get the nodeValue of textnode.

So I have done.

Node textnode = ....;
// <xml>
//  Hey!
// </xml>
if (textnode.hasChildNodes()) {
  // Ok, I know, that there is a node, but this is the correct and
  // safe way
  String textnodeContent = textnode.getFirstChild().getNodeValue();
  // The FirstChild is the #TextNode
}

And the result is: '\n Hey\n' - Grgggh!
I have no idea, what's going wrong...

Reading the API shows me a method 'ignorableWhitspace(int)' in
DOMParser; this seems to be a methos for ... But for what. I have noxi
idea.

> Which is all very annoying when all we want is the text from a tag.


Igor PARTL


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