problem with getNodeValue

[Bernard Kufluk]

I'm using the IBM4C distribution (Xerces really) and I'm having trouble
reading a node value.
I'm reading a large file and most of it works successfully; until I hit a
section of XML that looks like this:-

<key mine="1">
<blah>hello</blah>
<map>A</map>
</key>

<key mine="2">
<blah>goodbye</blah>
<map></map>
</key>

I can process the first key no problem - when I process the second key - and
try to get child node on the map - to my surprise it succeds - I would have
thought that there would be no child of the map element.
But if there is a child then ok - BUT when I read the text node child of the
map element - it's value turns out to be "#" !

What's going on - has anyone else seen this ?

Thanks

Bernard
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[Bernard Kufluk]

Apologies - I've found my mistake - the code is being clever and picking up
the default value from the schema as the
node value is not set.