OK I've tried what you suggested
I included a DTD and did
parser.setIncludeIgnorableWhitespace(false);
but it still doesnt ignore all whitespaces (maybe I'm writing the DTD
incorrectly?)
here is the xml doc:
----
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<!DOCTYPE address-book SYSTEM "address-book.dtd">
<address-book>
<entry>
<name>Jo Blo</name>
<address>
<street>3134 Broad Street</street>
<city>Philadelphia</city>
<state>Pennsylvania</state>
<zip>19143</zip>
</address>
<tel>215-329-3134</tel>
<fax>215-333-1234</fax>
<email>[EMAIL PROTECTED]</email>
</entry>
</address-book>
here is the DTD
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<!ELEMENT address-book (entry+)>
<!ELEMENT entry (name, address, tel*, fax*, email*)>
<!ELEMENT name (#PCDATA)>
<!ELEMENT address (street, city, state, zip)>
<!ELEMENT street (#PCDATA)>
<!ELEMENT city (#PCDATA)>
<!ELEMENT state (#PCDATA)>
<!ELEMENT zip (#PCDATA)>
<!ELEMENT tel (#PCDATA)>
<!ELEMENT fax (#PCDATA)>
<!ELEMENT email (#PCDATA)>
Node addressBook = root.getDocumentElement();
Node entry = addressBook.getFirstChild();
Node name = entry.getFirstChild();
name.getNodeValue() returns null
name.getFirstChild().getNodeValue() returns "Jo Blo"
if you want to reproduce my results, code, xml, and dtd are at
http://gateway.homeip.net/~son/addressBook
thanks for any feedback,
son
On Fri, 26 Jan 2001, Son To wrote:
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> Date: 26 Jan 2001 15:08:38 -0800
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: Node.getFirstChild() wierdness
>
> On Fri, 26 January 2001, Son To wrote:
>
> nope - it's right - the text is the blank line between <address> and <street>
>
> XML requires that the parser pass through all the text in the document
> whether it's 'ignorable' or not.
>
> If you have a DTD then the DOM parser can tell what text is ignorable and you
> can request that it not give it to you by setting
>
> parser.setIncludeIgnorableWhitespace(false)
>
> if you don't have a DTD then it can't tell what's ignorable and hence it
> can't leave it out.
>
> Roland
> >
> > Hi,
> > I am using DOM. There seems to be an extra Node in the Document object
> > that is returned
> >
> > for example,
> >
> > <address>
> > <street>3134 Broad Street</street>
> > <city>Philadelphia</city>
> > <state>Pennsylvania</state>
> > <zip>19143</zip>
> > </address>
> >
> > document.getDocumentElement().getFirstChild().getNodeName()
> > returns "#text" when I expected it to return "street"
> >
> > root.getDocumentElement().getFirstChild().getNextSibling().getNodeName()
> > returns "street"
> >
> > what is that "#text" being returned? Shouldn't the firstChild of address
> > be street?
> >
> > I tried various other xml documents, and "#text" is always the firstChild.
> > Am I misunderstanding the DOM tree? If so how is this address represented
> > in the DOM tree?
> >
> > thanks,
> > son
> >
> >
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