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Re: Get untagged text between elements

From: Peter Flynn <peter.nosp@-.--------.-->
To: NULL
Date: 2/3/2007 11:04:00 PM

FMAS wrote:
> I am transforming XML files which sometimes have untaged text between
> elements.
> 
> It looks like this:
> 
> <ut Style="external" DisplayText="bb">&lt;bb &quot;Document Numbering
> Formats&quot;&gt;</ut>
> <ut Style="external" DisplayText="bb">&lt;bb &quot;Custom Footnote
> Numbering&quot;&gt;</ut>*†‡
> <ut Style="external" DisplayText="bb">&lt;bb &quot;Volume
> Numbering&quot;&gt;</ut>
> 
> No problem to transform the content of tags. But I do not find a way
> to copy untagged text such as "*†‡" in the example above.
> 
> Any suggestion?

a) This looks like rather poor design by someone who really
    hasn't grasped the idea of XML properly.

b) It also appears that they are trying to hide data marked in
    another language within the XML.

c) Use the text() function to access character data in Mixed Content
    (which is what this resembles).

///Peter
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