Re: [xml] iterating through an XML document?

[Liam R E Quin <liam holoweb net>]

On Thu, 2007-06-14 at 01:25 +0200, Torsten Mohr wrote:

> But it seems that too many text nodes are output, also for nodes that
> do not have any content there is a text node with some whitespace characters
> in it.
>
> Do you know why this could happen?  How can i skip them?

Consider
<p><em>It's all</em> <b>exciting!</b></p>
and you'll see that the space between </em> and <b> is important.

If you write a DTD, you can have libxml discard space in "element
only context", i.e. where no text is allowed other than spaces.
But otherwise you'll get all the spaces.

This is a consequence of how XML works, and is not limited to
libxml.

Liam

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