[Zope-xml] DOM implementation view within the ZMI

[Eric Roby]

I have experimented with a couple docs (FGDC Metadata standard) and am
not sure if this is a side-effect or what...

XML clip:

<timeperd>
<timeinfo>
<rngdates>
<begdate>19990916</begdate>
<begtime>20461500</begtime>
<enddate>19990929</enddate>
<endtime>21044000</endtime>
</rngdates>
</timeinfo>
</timeperd>

When I view the DOM, I see the following:

- timeperd
     #text
   - timeinfo
        #text
      - rngdates
            #text
         - begdate
               #text
          - begtime
               #text
           - enddate
               #text
            - endtime
               #text
            #text
          #text
       #text

And, when I try to walk the dom with url traversal, the elements that
are
accessable are odd-numbers only.  I understand the #text references for
begdata, begtime, enddate & endtime but am baffled but the #text
references for the others. If I edit one of those #text elements, it
just hangs it out there above the other sub-elements.  And if I try and
delete the text I added,
it gives me an error.  The DOM view isn't handling compound elements
quite like I had expected.

I guess what I expected to see when I view the DOM (expanded) is the
following:

- timeperd
   - timeinfo
      - rngdates
         - begdate
               #text
          - begtime
               #text
           - enddate
               #text
            - endtime
               #text


Eric