plain text in XML in scala

Question

If I make a variable like this:

val x = <a>H<b>i</b>!</a>

how does Scala represent the text objects? If I were making the system, you'd have some List of elements that looks something like this:

L(0): TextElement = TextElement("h")
L(1): BElement    = BElement(TextElement("i"))
L(2): TextElement = TextElement("!")

But I don't see anything about text elements in any documentation (or really very much about how this works at all.)

How is it implemented in Scala?

what do you mean by "represent the text objects"? There is a scala.xml.Text class which does what I think you are asking for. — Erick Fleming
– Erick Fleming, Commented Mar 22, 2011 at 3:55

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it is xml.Text :

scala> x.child.map(_.getClass).foreach(println)
class scala.xml.Text
class scala.xml.Elem
class scala.xml.Text

answered Mar 22, 2011 at 3:56

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