Dale, Considering that this is valid:
<x>200<!-- commment in the middle of a value -->00</x> even for a valid document (which I think you meant to say) you can't assume that. This is just one example. I can think of at least a few others which break your assumption. Thanks. Michael Glavassevich XML Parser Development IBM Toronto Lab E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] "EXT-Pennington, Dale K" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 09/21/2007 12:10:11 PM: > Folks, > > I want to know if the following is a reasonable assumption : > > Given an element specified in a schema as > > <xs:element name="x" type="xs:long"> > > And decoding an XML document into a DOM using that schema as the > validation rule. > > If I find the Element Node in the DOM tree with name x, can I safely > assume it only has one Child Node which is a text node containing X's > value. > > Obviously, assuming such would make my code simpler, but I do not want > to insert bugs by making wrong assumptions. > > Thanks > > Dale Pennington
