Thanks to Roddey and Kevin, I found a couple of leads on the alphaworks site.
Sangita Keith Visco wrote: > The first child, is not necessarily "Element1", but the text node > containing the carriage return. > Your in memory object model probably looks like this: > > #document > #element: Element > #text: \n > #element: Element1 > #text: gg > #text: \n > > --Keith > > Sangita Gupta wrote: > > > > Hi all, > > This is my xml document: > > <?xml...etc> > > <Element> > > <Element1>gg</Element1> > > </Element> > > ------------------------------------------------- > > I loaded this document and have a doc. I have a RootElement of type > > DOM_Element which is the root of the document. I am doing : > > > > DOM_Element RootElement = doc.getDocumentElement(); > > DOM_Node ChildElement = RootElement.getFirstChild(); > > cout<< ChildElement.getNodeName().transcode(); > > > > This outputs #text whereas I am expecting to see Element1. > > what is the deal? > > > > Thanks in adv. > > -s
