Re: DOM : removeall nodes with xpath

rvj wrote:

> > I think the problem you
> > run into is that you use nextSibling.nextSibling trying to move from
> > element to element node however after the removal of one <node
> > about="node:3" label="hello"/> element node there are two adjacent white
> > space text nodes between
> >   <node about="node:2" />
> > and
> >   <node about="node:4" />
>
>
>
> I hadnt appreciated the significance  of the interleaved
> whitespace nodes
>
> So does this mean I should  ALSO be able to just remove the target's
> associated white space node using
> something like nextsibling.removeChild  so preserving the interleaved
> format.......

I wouldn't assume that nextSibling is any particular type of node, to be 
safe I would check its type e.g.
  node.nextSibling.nodeType == 3
whether it is a text node and if needed also check its content whether 
it is all whitespace.

> .. and can I always assume interleaved whitespace nodes are always created
> during xmldoc.load() ?

With Mozilla yes, if there are white space text nodes between element 
nodes then Mozilla models them in the document tree. MSXML for instance 
is different, it has an option to switch that on/off.

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