RE: [dom4j-user] Text nodes in dom4j

[Mike Skells]

Title: Message

Hi,

the number and typ of the nodes that you get is to do with the way that SAX parses things

 

If you want to only have one text node then you can

1. call normalise()  on the document/some parent element, which will combine the text nodes together

or

2. when you parse the document call setMergeAdjacentText(true) on the SAXReader, which will do the merge as you read the document

 

Mike

-----Original Message-----
From: Samuel Cheung [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday 10 March 2003 18:24
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [dom4j-user] Text nodes in dom4j

Hi,

If I have a xml source like this (with "\n" and "\t" before the <name> node), does dom4j has 1 text node for the "\n" and another text node for the "\t"? and these text nodes (2) along with the name node are the children of the <person> node?

  <person id="Big.Boss">
    <name><family>Boss</family> <given>Big</given></name>
  </person>

thank you