Article:		Converting Between XML and JSON
Subject:		#text should always work
Date:		2006-06-14 04:18:08
From:		stefan@goessner.net
Response to: #text should always work
This is a good point. Unfortunately we cannot have both 'e' *and* 'e["#text"]' resulting in the same textual content. I agree, that having always to use 'e["#text"]' for accessing an element's text generally is more consistent. Frequently programmers know their xml/json structure and want to use the less verbose 'e' form, which is what you also mentioned. A possible solution might be to let the user control behaviour by an additional configuration parameter. Please note however, that there is only an 'e.text' when element 'e' has a child element 'text'.

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