RE: [xml-dev] Question for the XPath and DOM folks

["Dare Obasanjo" <dareo@microsoft.com>]

If it returns a nodeset containing one text node should be returned then where does it come from and what is the node's parent? In the DOM the <foo> element has 3 children; 2 text nodes and 1 CDATA node. Your suggestion implies that the XPath query creates a new DOM node. 
 
Suppose we do create the new node. What happen when we query its parent? If the parent is <foo>, what happens when we ask it for its children do we get our original 3 or the newly created text node? 
 
I wonder what Jeni's right answer will be...
 
PS: I assume this was meant to be sent to the list so I CCed XML-DEV

	-----Original Message----- 
	From: Garland foster [mailto:garland_foster@salutia.com] 
	Sent: Sat 7/20/2002 11:46 AM 
	To: Dare Obasanjo 
	Cc: 
	Subject: Re: [xml-dev] Question for the XPath and DOM folks
	
	

	Let's start with the wrong opinions before Jeni says the "right" thing :-)
	
	In my opnion it should return a nodeset containing one text node with "bar
	baz quux"
	The spec says that CDATA sections are treated as character data and that a
	text
	node cannot have a sibling which is also a text node.
	
	And I might be just finding another XML-SPY xpath bug :-) do you guys see it
	returning 3 text nodes ?
	
	Garland
	
	PS: You have the dreaded file:// preapended so following my Master-Jedi
	(Master-Jeni)
	advice I'd say that it returns "invalid xpath expression" :-)
	
	----- Original Message -----
	From: Dare Obasanjo <dareo@microsoft.com>
	To: <xml-dev@lists.xml.org>
	Sent: Saturday, July 20, 2002 3:19 PM
	Subject: [xml-dev] Question for the XPath and DOM folks
	
	
	> Given the following XML in a DOM document
	>
	> <foo>
	> bar
	> <![CDATA[
	> baz
	> ]]>
	> quux
	> </foo>
	>
	> and the following XPath
	>
	> file://text()
	>
	> what should be the resulting DOM nodes and why? I can think of two answers
	but they both have problems.
	>
	>  PS: Why is http://www.w3.org/TR/2002/WD-DOM-Level-3-XPath-20020712/
	returning a 404 when it is linked from  http://www.w3.org/DOM/ ?
	>
	
	
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