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Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2000 14:13:58 -0800
From: Jason Hunter <jhunter@collab.net>
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To: Masaki Itagaki <mitagaki@uswest.net>
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Subject: Re: [jdom-interest] When a text contains HTML-tagged info...
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Masaki Itagaki wrote:
> 
> I'm trying to handle an Element that contains HMTL-tagged text as follows:
> 
> <section>
>         <txt> <A href="a.txt">This is a <B>sample</B> text!</A> </txt>
>         <loc> Line 5 </loc>
> </section>
> 
> If I get a text with getText() for the [txt] element -- like
> ((Element)obj).getChild("txt").getText() --, it returns only...
> 
> This is a sample text!

I think more likely it returns "This is a  text!"  If it returns what
you claim, then it's a bug.  <b> is a child of <a> and doesn't have its
text included.  (Hey, no one said holding HTML in XML was easy.)

> If I wish to get [<A href="a.txt">This is a <B>sample</B> text!</A>] as a
> whole, is there any simple approach to do that? In using getMixedContents,
> it's extremely clumsy to obtain also attribute information pieces.

Look at XMLOutputter outputElementContent().  That's what it's meant to
do.  You might find a bug tho.  I remember Alex Chaffee who wrote the
method griped about something not being 100% right.  Alex?

-jh-
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