XmlTextReader and <node> </node>

[David Thielen]

Hi;

I have a node where it is "<w:t> </w:t>" and what I get from XmlTextReader
is Element, SignificantWhitespace, EndElement instead of Element, Text,
EndElement.

Question 1 is why? The text of that node is a space.

Question 2 is how do I handle this. Do I watch for a SignificantWhitespace
inside an Element/EndElement? Or will that get me other things too?

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thanks - dave
david_at_windward_dot_net
http://www.windwardreports.com

[Kevin Yu [MSFT]]

Hi Dave,

Actually, this is by design. If it is an empty element, the XmlTextReader
will recognize all the white spaces between two tags as a whoe and return
it as whitespace. You can only check the nodetype, if it is reported as
whitespace, manually convert it to " ".

Kevin Yu
Microsoft Online Community Support

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[Ion Vasilian]

Some of the applications that consume a XmlReader benefit from the
additional
information provided by the classification of parsed character data.
Depending
on the context of the XmlReader, parsed character data can surface as
a Text node, a SignificantWhitespace node or simply a Whitespace node. For
more
details see
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/lib...lnodetype.aspx
If your application doesn't care about this level of granularity then you
can just
treat the combination of Text + SignificationWhitespace + Whitespace as one
case.

Ion

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Hi;

I have a node where it is "<w:t> </w:t>" and what I get from XmlTextReader
is Element, SignificantWhitespace, EndElement instead of Element, Text,
EndElement.

Question 1 is why? The text of that node is a space.

Question 2 is how do I handle this. Do I watch for a SignificantWhitespace
inside an Element/EndElement? Or will that get me other things too?

--
thanks - dave
david_at_windward_dot_net
http://www.windwardreports.com