On 4 Feb., 00:03, Peter Flynn <peter.n...@m.silmaril.ie> wrote:
> FMASwrote:
> > I am transforming XML files which sometimes have untaged text between
> > elements.
>
> > It looks like this:
>
> > <ut Style=3D"external" DisplayText=3D"bb">&lt;bb &quot;Document Numberi=
ng
> > Formats&quot;&gt;</ut>
> > <ut Style=3D"external" DisplayText=3D"bb">&lt;bb &quot;Custom Footnote
> > Numbering&quot;&gt;</ut>*=E2=80=A0=E2=80=A1
> > <ut Style=3D"external" DisplayText=3D"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 "*=E2=80=A0=E2=80=A1" in the example abov=
e=2E
>
> > Any suggestion?
>
> a) This looks like rather poor design by someone who really
> =C2=A0 =C2=A0 hasn't grasped the idea of XML properly.
>
> b) It also appears that they are trying to hide data marked in
> =C2=A0 =C2=A0 another language within the XML.
>
> c) Use the text() function to access character data in Mixed Content
> =C2=A0 =C2=A0 (which is what this resembles).
>
> ///Peter
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I agree that this is ugly XML but it get parsed witout errors. The
untaged text varies. It may be also numbers for chapters etc. I also
thougt about the text() function, but it doesn' seem to help here as
we are talking about input and not output. I have a structure like
this:

<tag>text I can get</tag>text I can't get<tag>text2 I can get</tag>

I wonder if I have to preprocess the XML file, maybe with perl. But if
it can be avoided so muc the better.

Francois