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Subject: Re: urk, simple question, testing for #PCDATA
From: Paul Prescod <papresco@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 08 Jul 1997 08:59:02 -0400

Norman Walsh wrote:
> Curiously, this node list isn't empty, even when you'd think it would be.

That's because characters are nodes.

> It turns out, however, that
> 
>  (gi (node-list-first (children snl)))
> 
> is #f if snl contains just PCDATA.

Not if the first node is a character but subsequent ones are "real"
nodes. You need to use (select-by-class (children snl) 'element)

 Paul Prescod

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urk, simple question, testing for #PCDATA Norman Walsh - Mon, 7 Jul 1997 09:42:47 -0400 (EDT) Vivek Agrawala - Mon, 7 Jul 1997 10:09:39 -0400 (EDT) Norman Walsh - Tue, 8 Jul 1997 08:30:54 -0400 (EDT) Paul Prescod - Tue, 8 Jul 1997 09:28:41 -0400 (EDT) <= Paul Prescod - Mon, 7 Jul 1997 18:57:03 -0400 (EDT)

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