RE: [xml-dev] text nodes of document in XDM

["David Lee" <dlee@calldei.com>]

------->  David Carlisle

so you could just serialize document nodesas <x:document>....</x:document>
and reconstruct the XDM by taking the content of teh x;document element 
(discarding the namespace bound to x) and making that the content of a 
document node. this is a little more than just an xml parser, but 
trivial bit of xquery for example.
----------->

I had debauted this then tossed it as I wanted the degenerate case of a
"normal" document to not have the artificial wrapper.
But since then I've found other subtle cases where that's not possible
anyway so I think you suggestion may in fact be the cleanest way to go.

It may even be possible to "stream" this parsing using StAX or SAX with a
filter that removes the outer document element node without having to pull
in the entire document. 

Thanks !


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