Re: xml/ada dropping data when pre-defined entities are separated by space?

["björn lundin" <b.f.lundin@gmail.com>]

On 31 Jan, 01:22, Georg Bauhaus <rm-host.bauh...@maps.futureapps.de>
wrote:
> On 1/29/11 10:49 PM, bj rn lundin wrote:
>
> > bnl@ubuntu-virtual:~$ ./test_xml
> > Value of Row is: ABC&
> > Value of node is: ABC&
> > Value of node is:&  DEF
>
> Does XML/Ada's Node have a Normalize op? (IIUC, normalize
> will merge adjacent Text nodes.)  Or does Document have
> a normalization op for the entire document, maybe?

I was just going to ask what makes xml/ada decide why a textnode is
sometimes split into several nodes. I see the pattern now, of course,
'split on predefined entity' but why?

for Index in 1 .. Length (List) loop
  N := Item(List, Index - 1);
  cl:=child_nodes(N);
  Ada.Text_IO.Put_Line("Value of Row is: " &  Node_Value(First_Child
(N)));
  for i in 1 .. length(cl) loop
    Ada.Text_IO.Put_Line("Value of node is: " &
Node_Value(item(cl,i-1)));
  end loop;
end loop;

can be replaced with

for Index in 1 .. Length (List) loop
  N := Item(List, Index - 1);
  Normalize(N);
  Ada.Text_IO.Put_Line("Value of Row is: " &  Node_Value(First_Child
(N)));
end loop;

with the same result.
Thank you Simon and George