Hello, I again misposted my message to a member of the list, instead of the list itself. That is because I overuse the reply button and I don't recheck the address I am writing to.
Sorry Fredrik. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Bogdan Bivolaru <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Sun, Aug 17, 2008 at 10:38 PM Subject: Confused by text and tail concepts of ElementTree To: Fredrik Lundh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Hello, I'm a little confused by the tail in the ElementTree Infoset: http://effbot.org/zone/element-infoset.htm An example from that page: <ELEM key="value">text<SUBELEM />tail</ELEM> So this is the question: element.text = "text" element.tail = None element[:] = [<Element SUBELEM>] subelement.tag = "SUBELEM" subelement.tail = "tail" if element.text and subelement.tail are both children of element, why is the tail actually attached to the subelement and not the element, as it's sibling? I expected that anything that refers an element is enclosed in the tags of said element, instead I learn that a tag can contain reference to content that is outside it's tags:: "<a/>aaa" Doesn't this violate the concept of a tree of a single root element? Is it valid to reference root.tail? In the particular case below: <ELEM key="value">text<SUBELEM />tail1<SUBELEM />tail2</ELEM> from what I understood I can access: text by "element.text" tail1 by "element.children[0].tail" tail2 by "element.children[1].tail" -- "The best way to predict the future is to invent it.", 1971, Alan Kay: http://www.smalltalk.org/alankay.html -- "The best way to predict the future is to invent it.", 1971, Alan Kay: http://www.smalltalk.org/alankay.html
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