[XML-SIG] How can I search for a string of text

[Andrew M. Kuchling]

Jeff.Johnson@icn.siemens.com writes:
>I need to remove a string from my HTML files but I don't know the best way to
>find it.  There are usually line feeds in the HTML between the string so the
>string does not appear as one DOM text node.  Does anyone know the best way to
>find contiguous text that spans multiple DOM nodes?

	The normalize() method on an Element node consolidates the
subtree so there are no adjacent Text nodes, merging Text nodes that
are next to each other into a single node.  So you could do
document.rootElement.normalize(), and then rely on the string being
contained within one node.  That won't catch tricky cases -- do you
need to find it if an entity expands to the string, or to part of the
string?  if the string had a PI in the middle of it, would it still
count as a match? -- but it'll certainly help with the simple case.

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