Re: [xml] xmlNodeGetContent() completely recursive?

[Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>]

On Mon, Oct 22, 2001 at 03:25:25PM +0200, Henke, Markus wrote:
> But there's one problem: The behavior of xmlNodeGetContent()  is
> "completely" recursiv,
> that is, it aggregates not only the child (TEXT and ENTITY_REF) nodes but
> also the
> grandchild nodes, the grand-grandchild nodes etc.
> So, if i call xmlNodeGetContent() on a root element, i'll get an aggregation
> of all TEXT
> nodes enclosed by the document.
> Well, i think this behavior is "by design", but is there a similar method

  yes

> that provides
> only the aggregation of the 1st generation (TEXT-  and ENTITY_REF-) child
> nodes of a given node?

  no, simply walk the node "children" list and call xmlNodeGetContent()
on the elements you want to pick.

  From a structured document perspective and since you seems to have
mixed content, 

   text  <child A>  text2  <child B>  text3

  Extracting a concatenation of text + text2 + text3 without the content
of the node children really makes little sense. I'm tempted to say that
your DTD is not well designed if you have to do this.

Daniel

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