Get text without children in XML::Twig

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Re: Get text without children in XML::Twig by mirod (Canon) on Dec 07, 2006 at 14:47 UTC
Well at the moment you can't, but if you give me a good name for the method, I'll add it to the module. In the meantime, you can do (untested): `my $text= join '', map { $_->text if( $_->is_text) } $elt->children;`	[reply] [d/l]
Re^2: Get text without children in XML::Twig by herveus (Prior) on Dec 08, 2006 at 12:27 UTC
Howdy! How about a different approach: `my $text = $elt->text('-nochildren');` [download] or some such argument. Are there other methods that might benefit from the same treatment? Would that make more sense than adding a new method, or would that not fit with the general way that XML::Twig works? yours, Michael	[reply] [d/l]
Re^3: Get text without children in XML::Twig by mirod (Canon) on Dec 08, 2006 at 15:56 UTC
It does make sense. There are a few methods that could use this argument. Thanks for the idea.	[reply]
Re^2: Get text without children in XML::Twig by GrandFather (Saint) on Dec 07, 2006 at 19:04 UTC
root_text() DWIM is Perl's answer to Gödel	[reply]
Re^3: Get text without children in XML::Twig by mirod (Canon) on Dec 07, 2006 at 20:40 UTC
I am not sure about this one. `root` is usually reserved for the root of the tree. I would expect `root_text` to give me the text of the root of the tree (ie whitout the XML declaration and comments/PIs before the root). What about `text_only`? I like the idea of the method being named `text_...`, so it is obviuus that it returns the text, and so it appears right after `text` in the online doc ToC, which is sorted by alphabetical order.	[reply]
Re^4: Get text without children in XML::Twig by GrandFather (Saint) on Dec 07, 2006 at 20:56 UTC
Re: Get text without children in XML::Twig by shamu (Acolyte) on Dec 11, 2006 at 16:07 UTC
Or use the conventional norecurse already used throughout XML::Twig.	[reply]