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> On Sat, Jul 20, 2002 at 11:19:25AM -0700, Dare Obasanjo wrote:
> > Given the following XML in a DOM document
> >
> > <foo>
> > bar
> > <![CDATA[
> > baz
> > ]]>
> > quux
> > </foo>
> >
> > and the following XPath
> >
> > //text()
> >
> > what should be the resulting DOM nodes and why? I can think of two answers but they both have problems.
>
> Well the theorical answer is that XPath operates on an XPath
> data model, not a DOM view. Your question has no answer, XPath is not
> designed to work on a standard DOM tree, CDATA are transparently
> turned in (the container) text node.
Maybe you're right, but to my reading, the following statement in the spec
seems to give the definitive answer:
"...a text node never has an immediately following or preceding sibling that
is a text node."
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