On 5 sep, 04:49, perry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> thinking about following xml fragment:
>
> <gradingcriterion>
> <label>Subject/discipline content & knowledge</label>
> <value>knowledge</value>
> </gradingcriterion>
>
> when I use getChildNodes().getLength(), the result I get is 5 instead
> of 2.
5 is correct: text nodes are nodes, even if they're all whitespace.
> I re-edit the above xml fragment as a single line:
>
> <gradingcriterion><label>Subject/discipline content &knowledge</
> label><value>knowledge</value></gradingcriterion>
>
> The result I get is 2.
Yep, you removed the text nodes.
> So it is obvious that "/n" is considered as a child node by GWT.
Correction: by XML, InfoSet and the DOM.
BWT, GWT doesn't to the XML parsing by itself, it delegates to the
browser (an ActiveX on IE, some special object on others)
> So is there way to walk around this problem?
Window.alert("Before: " + gradingcriterion.getChildNodes.getLength());
XMLParser.removeWhitespace(gradingcriterion);
Window.alert("After: " + gradingcriterion.getChildNodes.getLength());
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