Thanks, that should help immensely.  Sorry about the no subject.  I'll post
some working code when I get it working.

Jason

>-----Original Message-----
>From: tom dyson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>Sent: Tuesday, December 10, 2002 5:27 AM
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subject: [cf-xml] splitText (was 'no subject')
>
>
>Hi Jason
>
>Sorry for the slow response to your question.
>
>The character data of a specific element - 'XMLText' in the CFMX model,
>'Text' in the standard XML DOM - is itself a node (a child node of the
>Element node, to be exact) and is not often sub-divided. 
>However, there is a
>method in the DOM specification for exactly this purpose: splitText().
>
>From the JAXP API documentation on the splitText method:
>
>"Breaks this node into two nodes at the specified offset, 
>keeping both in
>the tree as siblings. After being split, this node will contain all the
>content up to the offset point. A new node of the same type, 
>which contains
>all the content at and after the offset point, is returned. If 
>the original
>node had a parent node, the new node is inserted as the next 
>sibling of the
>original node. When the offset is equal to the length of this 
>node, the new
>node has no data."
>
>CFMX's cut-down DOM implementation doesn't support the 
>splitText method, so
>you'll need to access the relevant Java or COM objects directly. See
>
>http://www.devguru.com/Technologies/xmldom/quickref/text_splitText.html
>
>and 
>
>http://www.w3schools.com/dom/dom_text.asp
>
>for the syntax.
>
>Best wishes
>
>Tom
>
>> How does one go about choosing where in the XmlText of a 
>node to place a new
>> node?
>> 
>> For example:
>> 
>> <cfsavecontent variable="bob">
>> <p>One <strong> two <i>three</i> four</strong> five</p>
>> </cfsavecontent>
>> <cfscript>
>> x=XMLParse(bob);
>> </cfscript>
>> 
>> So know I want to add another node (say, another <i>) in 
>between the i and v
>> of the five.
>> 
>> How would one do this?
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> 
>> Jason
>
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