Re: element content

["W. Eliot Kimber" <eliot@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 01:58 PM 10/26/98 -0500, Norman Walsh wrote:
>| You have received several useful answers, but I have a question, for
>| you or for anybody else...
>| 
>| How do you decide between using (data (current-node)) and using
>| (process-children) to get the character data?
>
>I generally try to avoid (data) unless I really need the content
>in a string (to stuff it in an attribute in the SGML back end,
>to print it in an error message, to shift it to upper/lower
>case, etc.).
>
>Since you lose all internal markup with (data),
>(process-children) usually seems like a better choice...

And you can always use a separate mode if you want to do transforms on the
character data itself.

Cheers,

E.
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