Re: [xmljs-users] ELEMENT_NODE Vs TEXT_NODE

[David J. <dj...@ya...>]

You're probably seeing the white space in your XML turned into XML nodes. In XML, whitespace is
non-trivial and can be included as part of the document as its own node.

XML for <SCRIPT> provides a way to turn this feature off in the DOMImplementation object. See

http://xmljs.sourceforge.net/website/documentation-w3cdom-DOMImplementation.html#DOMImplementationpreserveWhiteSpace

for more info. It should be off by default though. Are you turning it on for some reason?

David

--- Barry Beattie <Ba...@al...> wrote:
> (this list has been so quiet that I'm wondering if I'm still subscribed...)
> 
> hi all
> 
> I'm really stumped on this (partly because I'm trying to muddle through this while being unwell)
> 
> I've got a bunch of child nodes that are returning alternating (and phantom) types (xml below).
> I've had to filter out the "phantoms" with 
> 
> if(thisPeriod.nodeType == 1)
> 
> Tracing the nodeType and length of childNodes I get 15 child nodes and their types are
> 
> 3,1,3,1,3,1,3,1,3,1,3,1,3,1,3. 
> 
> I should only have 7 childNodes (7 "periods"). Where have the 8 text nodes come from?
> 
> thanx
> barry.b
> 
> 
>    periods = timetableRoot.getElementsByTagName("periods").item(0).getChildNodes();
>    for(var i=0;i<periods.length;i++){
>     var thisPeriod = periods.item(i) // each child node
>     
>     if(thisPeriod.nodeType == 1){// "1" =  DOMNode.ELEMENT_NODE; "3" =  DOMNode.TEXT_NODE
>     .... process ...
> 
> - <periods>
>     + <period currentperiod="NO">
>     + <period currentperiod="NO">
>     + <period currentperiod="NO">
>     + <period currentperiod="NO">
>     + <period currentperiod="NO">
>     + <period currentperiod="NO">
>     + <period currentperiod="NO">
> + <periods>
> 
> 
> and each <period> has this layout (note: there are 0 to many subjects)
> 
> 
> <period currentperiod="NO">
> 	<day_code><![CDATA[ 2  ]]></day_code>
> 	<prd_code><![CDATA[ 1  ]]></prd_code>
> 	<prd_desc><![CDATA[ Period 1  ]]></prd_desc>
> 	<prd_end><![CDATA[ {ts '1970-01-01 09:39:00'}  ]]></prd_end>
> 	<prd_start><![CDATA[ {ts '1970-01-01 09:00:00'}  ]]></prd_start>
> 	<prd_weight /> 
> 	<tt_id><![CDATA[ 26  ]]></tt_id>
> 	<subjects>
> 		<subject sub_code="0031">
> 			<sub_code><![CDATA[ 0031  ]]></sub_code>
> 			<shortdescription><![CDATA[ Mat1  ]]></shortdescription>
> 			<class><![CDATA[ A  ]]></class>
> 			<room><![CDATA[ B3  ]]></room>
> 			<sub_desc><![CDATA[ Mathematics I  ]]></sub_desc>
> 			<tch_code><![CDATA[ LD  ]]></tch_code>
> 			<tch_name><![CDATA[ Miss L Dent  ]]></tch_name>
> 		</subject>
>   </subjects>
>   </period>
> 
> 
> -------------------------------------------------------
> SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide
> Read honest & candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users.
> Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start reading now.
> http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_ide95&alloc_id396&op=click
> _______________________________________________
> xmljs-users mailing list
> xml...@li...
> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/xmljs-users
>