Re: [dom4j-user] Extracting Text Fragments

[James Strachan]

I think in XPath something like the following would work...   piece/text()[1]   or as Steve just said in a seperate mail, you could just iterate through the Text nodes, using the first one you find. James ------- http://radio.weblogs.com/0112098/ ----- Original Message ----- From: Terry Steichen To: dom4j-user Sent: Monday, September 23, 2002 9:18 PM Subject: [dom4j-user] Extracting Text Fragments Assume I have an XML document including the following fragment:   <piece>text1<blob1>stuff</blob1>text2</piece>   How do you extract text1 separately from text2 - that is, programmatically distinguish where text1 ends and text2 begins?   Regards,   Terry