Re: [xml] Get element tail

[Csaba Raduly <rcsaba gmail com>]

Hi Bogdan,

On Wed, Oct 23, 2013 at 12:12 PM, Bogdan Cristea wrote:
> Hi
>
> I am trying to follow lxml from Python that allows to get the text after the
> end of an element, but before the next element begins (i.e. the next sibling
> of the current element). I am able to do this with xmlTextReader, by
> obtaining a pointer from the current node (when the node type is ELEMENT) to
> its next sibling.

How do you do that? What call do you use?

> <h1>Text before <strong>bold 1 <underline>undelined text</underline> after
> bold 1</strong>in between <strong>bold 2</strong>text after <strong>bold
> 3</strong>.</h1>
> <h1><strong>bold 1</strong> no text before <strong>bold 2</strong> text
> after <strong>bold 3</strong>.</h1>
>
> The first <h1> element is correctly parsed, but the second one is not, the
> text node " no text before " is not detected as the tail of the element
> <strong>.

There is no such thing as "tail of the element <strong>" from the POV
of xmlTextReader.
The text node is merely the next node the cursor would be pointing at
calling xmlTextReaderRead.

Csaba
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