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> Given that the DOM allows adjacent Text nodes unless
> normalise() is called, and CDATASection nodes extend
> the interfaces of Text, how would your processing
> change if you just dealt with Text alone?
After I get the tree, I call normalize() on it. Suppose my processing
is to count people whose first name is "Karl", in a document like
<people><person><first>Karl</first><last>Käfer</last></person></people>
Then I'd do
karls = 0
root.normalize()
for person in root.getElementsByTagName("person"):
first = person.getElementsByTagName("first")[0]
for n in first.childNodes:
if n.nodeType == Node.TEXT_NODE and n.data == "Karl":
break
else:
continue
karl += 1
Now, if there are CDATA sections in there, this algorithm will break:
the string Karl could still be split across several nodes.
Regards,
Martin
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