RE: [xml] xmlNodeGetContent() completely recursive?

["Henke, Markus" <Markus_Henke ordat com>]

Hi Daniel,

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Henke, Markus 
> Sent: Monday, October 22, 2001 4:39 PM
> To: 'xml gnome org'
> Cc: 'veillard redhat com'
> Subject: RE: [xml] xmlNodeGetContent() completely recursive?
>
>
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Daniel Veillard [mailto:veillard redhat com]
> > Sent: Monday, October 22, 2001 3:47 PM
> > To: Henke, Markus
> > Cc: 'xml gnome org'
> > Subject: Re: [xml] xmlNodeGetContent() completely recursive?
> >
> >
> > 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.
>
> What a pity. Won't work for me...


Nonsense, for sure it'll work.
Just got it completely wrong. Silly me...   8]


> >   From a structured document perspective and since you seems to have
> > mixed content, 
> >
> >    text  <child A>  text2  <child B>  text3
>
> Yep, possible scenario.
>  
> > Extracting a concatenation of text + text2 + text3 without 
> > the content of the node children really makes little sense.
>
> Depends.
>
> Another point: If i make a complete parse of an unknown document
> structure (without DTD), e.g.:
>
> <root><child><grandchild>Grandchild's 
> content<grandchild/><child/><root/>
>
> (no mixed content!),
> does it make sense to get "Grandchild's content" when i call
> xmlNodeGetContent(root)?
> Wouldn't it be useful to have a method that provides
> xmlNodeGet???(root)= "",
> xmlNodeGet???(child)= "",
> xmlNodeGet???(grandchild)= "Grandchild's content"?
>
>
> > I'm tempted to say that
> > your DTD is not well designed if you have to do this.
>
> Granted. And if it would be "MY" DTD, i won't allow mixed
> content at all.
> But in fact i've to deal with several kind of documents,
> potentially without DTD/validation and without influence
> on the potential structure.
>  
> > Daniel
>
> Thanx & Ciao, Markus
>  
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