XML DOM textContent property
Node objects Definition and Usage
textContent property sets or returns the text node and its descendants.
When set, any child nodes will be deleted and be replaced by a single Text node that contains the settings of the attribute string.
grammar
nodeObject.textContent
Examples
The following code fragment uses loadXMLDoc () to " the Books.xml " into xmlDoc, and returns the text content of <book> element:
Examples
xmlDoc=loadXMLDoc("books.xml");
x=xmlDoc.getElementsByTagName('book');
for(i=0;i<x.length;i++)
{
document.write(x.item(i).textContent);
document.write("
");
}
x=xmlDoc.getElementsByTagName('book');
for(i=0;i<x.length;i++)
{
document.write(x.item(i).textContent);
document.write("
");
}
The code above will output:
Everyday Italian Giada De Laurentiis 2005 30.00
Harry Potter J K. Rowling 2005 29.99
XQuery Kick Start James McGovern Per Bothner Kurt Cagle James Linn
Vaidyanathan Nagarajan 2003 49.99
Learning XML Erik T. Ray 2003 39.95
Harry Potter J K. Rowling 2005 29.99
XQuery Kick Start James McGovern Per Bothner Kurt Cagle James Linn
Vaidyanathan Nagarajan 2003 49.99
Learning XML Erik T. Ray 2003 39.95
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Try Demos
textContent - to set the text content of the node
Node objects