Forum Post: [V8i C++] Examining Text in a TextNode that is contained in a cell

I'm attempting to examine the contents of a TextNode that is contained in a cell and determine if any parts have EnterData fields. I'm using a ChildElemIter derived from an EditElemHandleR to examine the Text and TextNodes in the cell. When a TextNode is found, I'm calling mdlElmdscr_operation() to process the contents of the TextNode. Problem is the "operation" finds many more items (text, lines, shapes, etc) that just the text strings in the text node. It even goes past the NEXT TextNode in the file !!!! Is there a "better" (ie "proper") way to do this?

extern "C"  DLLEXPORT  int  scanTextNode
(
 MSElement       *elP,     //=> element to act upon
    void            *params,      //=> passed from original call
    int             operation,    //=> why you were called
    UInt32          offset,       //=> offset from header
    MSElementDescr  *elemDscrP    //=> element descr
)
{
    printf("scanTextNode[%d] type=%d, ID=%I64d\n",gElementCount,mdlElement_getType(elP),mdlElement_getID(elP) );
    int    rc = 0;
    gElementCount++;
    return rc;
}
for (ChildElemIter child (eeh, EXPOSECHILDREN_FindText ); child.IsValid(); child=child.ToNext())
{
    DPoint3d origin = { 0 };
    if ( child.GetElementType() == TEXT_ELM )
    {
       int   numEDfields=0;
       mdlText_extract(&origin, NULL, &numEDfields, NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, (MSElement*)  child.GetElementCP    () );
       if ( numEDfields )
          printf("\tbuildTextReplacementList::Text, dataFields:%d\n",numEDfields);
    }
    else if ( child.GetElementType() == TEXT_NODE_ELM )
    {
       int   nodeNumber=0;
       mdlTextNode_extract(NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, &nodeNumber, (MSElement*)child.GetElementCP(), NULL );
       printf("\tTEXT NODE, number:%d, ID=%I64d\n", nodeNumber, mdlElement_getID(child.GetElementCP()) );
       gElementCount=0;
       mdlElmdscr_operation( (MSElementDescr*)child.GetElemDescrCP(), scanTextNode, NULL, /*ELMD_ELEMENT*/ ELMD_ALL_ONCE );
       printf("\tEnd of TEXT NODE, gElementCount=%d\n", gElementCount);
    }
}