[#GROOVY-2115] text() method on NodeChild with XmlSlurper returns composite. Need just local text.

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text() method on NodeChild with XmlSlurper returns composite. Need just local text.

Created: 11/Sep/07 08:34 PM Updated: 13/Feb/08 05:22 AM

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XML Processing

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windows xp on jdk 1.4.2

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I am trying to use XmlSlurper to process and xml with nested elements with text in them. I need to get the text from just one level at a time but the text() method returns all text for all childrend and I can't see anything that would bring back just the local.

Here is a sample from the console:

groovy> def model = new XmlSlurper().parseText('<aModel><aParent name="bubba">text<aChild>child text</aChild></aParent></aModel>')

groovy> model.aParent[0].text()

groovy>

Result: "textchild text"

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Paul King - 12/Feb/08 05:26 PM

John, assigning to you if for nothing else for comment. Given your proposed new method(s) to XmlSlurper it kind of makes sense to try to tackle this at the same time I think. Just assign back (or leave unassigned) if you have no time (though any suggestions would be welcome) or provide a comment if you think the feature request is not warranted and can be done by other means.

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John Wilson - 13/Feb/08 05:22 AM

This is not a bug - text() does what it is designed to do which is to give you all the text in the element

However there is a need for an additional mechanism to let you handle mixed content as in the example provided.

I'm working on this