Hello,

I'm sorry if this has been mentioned before on the mailing list.  I
tried to look through the archives, but I didn't see this.

I am trying to use the latest Xerces-J parser, but I get an exception
when I try to access the first child from the root.

I get a java.lang.ClassCastException:
org.apache.xerces.dom.DeferredTextImpl exception thrown when I try to
execute the line:

child = (Element)trueroot.getFirstChild();

I'm not sure what to do, since I'm not sure what the exception message
is telling me.  I am using the IBM JDK 1.1.8 JDK on Linux 2.2.13.  The
Xerces-J parser is the latest from CVS.

Here is a code snipet:

DOMParser parser = new DOMParser();
parser.parse(filename);
Document doc = parser.getDocument();
Element trueroot = (Element)doc.getDocumentElement();
Element child = (Element)trueroot.getFirstChild();

Any hints or ideas would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks very much,
Seth

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