XML DOM length property
CDATA objects Definition and Usage
length property returns the number of characters in the selected node.
grammar
CDATANode.length
Examples
The following code fragment uses loadXMLDoc () to " books_cdata.xml " into xmlDoc and get text nodes and data length from the first <title> element:
Examples
xmlDoc=loadXMLDoc("books_cdata.xml");
x=xmlDoc.getElementsByTagName("html")[0].childNodes[0];
document.write(x.data);
document.write(" - Length: ");
document.write(x.length);
x=xmlDoc.getElementsByTagName("html")[0].childNodes[0];
document.write(x.data);
document.write(" - Length: ");
document.write(x.length);
The code above will output:
Stunning!- Length: 16
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Remember, the above is the entire length CDATA sections (<b> Stunning! </ B>) in length, not just the length of the text.
CDATA objects