text

Compability: Internet Explorer

Syntax:: node.text

This property contains the text content of this node and its subtrees.

Where the node has a subtree, text content from it is concatenated to that of the main node into one string. When concatenated, the text represents the content of text and CDATA nodes. All concatenated text nodes are normalized according to xml:space attributes and the value of the preserveWhiteSpace property. Concatenated CDATA text is not normalized. (Child nodes containing Comment or ProcessingInstruction nodes are not concatenated.)

The value returned by the text property depends on the nodeValue property.

NodeType	Comments
NODE_ATTRIBUTE NODE_DOCUMENT NODE_ENTITY	Returns a string representing the value of the node. This is the concatenated text of all subnodes with entities expanded.
NODE_CDATA_SECTION NODE_COMMENT NODE_PROCESSING_INSTRUCTION NODE_TEXT	Returns the text contained in the node, which is the same as the nodeValue property.
NODE_DOCUMENT_TYPE NODE_NOTATION	Returns the empty string, as these node types do not have associated text.
NODE_DOCUMENT_FRAGMENT	Returns text comprising the concatenation of descendant nodes.
NODE_ELEMENT	Returns a string representing the contents of the element, including the text from all child elements concatenated in document order.
NODE_ENTITY_REFERENCE	Returns a string representation of the entity reference.

Examples

Code:

XML:



<Albums>


    <Album ref="CD720">


       <category>Pop</category>


       <title>Come On Over</title>


       <artist>Shania Twain</artist>


    </Album>


    <Album ref="CD024">


       <category>Country</category>


       <title>Red Dirt Girl</title>


       <artist>Emmylou Harris</artist>


    </Album>


 </Albums>



VBScript:



Set objXMLDoc = CreateObject("Microsoft.XMLDOM")


 objXMLDoc.async = False


 objXMLDoc.load("albums.xml")



 Set Album = objXMLDoc.documentElement.lastChild


 document.write(Album.text)

Output:

Country Red Dirt Girl Emmylou Harris

Explanation:

In this example the 'albums.xml' file is loaded, and the text of the last 'Album' element is displayed.

Primary links

XML DOM » Node » text

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Language(s): VBScript XML