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Hi,
As Mike and Jirka have hinted, there's a subtle but important distinction between "this element contains mixed content" and "some element of this element's type contains mixed content". The former is easy to test for, as David shows. The latter is a bit trickier, especially given how the scope for "some" and "type" might vary -- some element with the same name in the document, some element validating against a schema, etc. Sometimes the latter can safely be treated as the former, and sometimes not. Sometimes you can't check the schema, but you can check all the elements of a given element's type in a document, and get a narrower margin of error (though not none) that way. This is where a 2.0 feature that was discussed recently can be helpful. XSLT 2.0 can perform whitespace stripping of "insignificant" whitespace. Whitespace occurring in mixed content isn't insignificant by definition. Of course, this requires you to have an XSD or DTD. Cheers, Wendell At 07:12 AM 9/12/2007, David wrote: > What is the best way to test if an element contains mixed content. ====================================================================== Wendell Piez mailto:wapiez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Mulberry Technologies, Inc. http://www.mulberrytech.com 17 West Jefferson Street Direct Phone: 301/315-9635 Suite 207 Phone: 301/315-9631 Rockville, MD 20850 Fax: 301/315-8285 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Mulberry Technologies: A Consultancy Specializing in SGML and XML ======================================================================
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