I'm after all of the XML as a single string including markup and any
content at the root level of the node.

Sorry i wasn't clear.


> 
> 
> Hi Marc
> 
> I guess I'm trying to understand what you want. Do you want 
> all of the XML
> as a single String including markup? Or do you want just the 
> text content
> and loose the markup? Or preserve the XML as a tree of 
> Element and Text
> nodes?
> 
> James
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Marc Elliott" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: "James Strachan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>;
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Monday, October 01, 2001 2:25 PM
> Subject: RE: [dom4j-user] database to document OK, but document to
> database...
> 
> 
> > So I guess it depends on what you want to do. Are you trying
> > to output the
> > XML of whats inside the <intro> XML without the <intro> tag?
> > If so this
> > should do the trick fine...
> >
> > Writer out = new FileWriter( "foo.xml" );
> > for ( Iterator iter = intro.nodeIterator(); iter.hasNext(); ) {
> >     Node node = (Node) iter.next();
> >     node.write( out );
> > }
> 
> 
> This is closer to what I need to do, but how would it handle 
> situations
> where the contents were mixed? like this:
> 
> <intro>
> More, content, contentcontent, contentcontent
> <p><b>Content, content, content</b></p>
> <p>More, content, contentcontent, contentcontent,
> contentcontent, contentcontent, contentcontent, contentcontent,
> contentcontent, contentcontent, contentcontent, contentcontent,
> contentcontent, contentcontent, contentcontent, contentcontent,
> contentcontent, <some other tag>contentcontent</some other tag>,
> contentcontent, contentcontent, contentcontent, contentcontent,
> content</p>
> </intro>
> 
> ... would the copy within the intro tags, but not within any others be
> treated as if it were a node?
> 
> >
> > James
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Marc Elliott" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Sent: Monday, October 01, 2001 2:06 PM
> > Subject: [dom4j-user] database to document OK, but document
> > to database...
> >
> >
> > Hi folks,
> >
> > I've done pretty well getting dom4j to take content from my
> > database and
> > construct a document object and then an XML file, but I'm 
> having a bit
> > of a trouble getting the data I need out of a document and
> > putting into
> > the database.
> >
> > The problem appears to be rooted in the fact that my XML 
> documents are
> > somewhat unstructured with mixed content at different levels.
> >
> > For example:
> >
> > <intro>
> > <p><b>Content, content, content</b></p>
> > <p>More, content, contentcontent, contentcontent,
> > contentcontent, contentcontent, contentcontent, contentcontent,
> > contentcontent, contentcontent, contentcontent, contentcontent,
> > contentcontent, contentcontent, contentcontent, contentcontent,
> > contentcontent, <some other tag>contentcontent</some other tag>,
> > contentcontent, contentcontent, contentcontent, contentcontent,
> > content</p>
> > </intro>
> >
> > If I grab this content using the asXML method on the intro node, the
> > <intro> tags come with it, and I don't want them to.  But 
> if I use the
> > getText or the getValueOf method, it won't return anything 
> in the <p>
> > tags.  Is there a better way to go about this?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Marc
> >
> > ..................................................
> >
> > Marc Elliott
> > Director of Information Architecture / HNW Inc.
> > Digital Solutions for High-Net-Worth Marketers
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> > fx: 815-327-4167
> >
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