Agreed - maybe just knowing if an Element has some text is more relevant.

String text = element.getText();
if ( text.length() > 0 ) {
    ...
}

James
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To: "Brian Young" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Sent: Thursday, March 14, 2002 8:59 PM
Subject: Re: [dom4j-user] problem detecting CDATA


> I believe the answer is that at the DOM level it's not supposed to matter,
> and therefore you don't & can't know if it's CDATA.
>
> - dave
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
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> Sent: Thursday, March 14, 2002 12:28 PM
> Subject: [dom4j-user] problem detecting CDATA
>
>
> > I'm writing some code where I need to know whether an element contains a
> > CDATA section or not, but am having trouble determining this with the
> > top level dom4j interfaces.  Element.getText() obviously just returns a
> > String representing all of the text whether it was in a CDATA section or
> > not.
> >
> > It is rather likely I am just missing something- so please point me in
> > the right direction.....
> >
> > Thanks
> >
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