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text Property
Represents the text content of the node or the concatenated text representing the node and its descendants.
Script Syntax
strValue = oXMLDOMNode.text;
Example
The following script example creates an IXMLDOMNode of type NODE_ENTITY, and then displays the object's text value, including that of any of the object's child nodes.
var xmlDoc = new ActiveXObject("Msxml2.DOMDocument.5.0");
var currNode;
xmlDoc.async = false;
xmlDoc.load("books.xml");
if (xmlDoc.parseError.errorCode != 0) {
var myErr = xmlDoc.parseError;
alert("You have error " + myErr.reason);
} else {
currNode = xmlDoc.documentElement.childNodes.item(0);
alert(currNode.text);
}
Visual Basic Syntax
strValue = oXMLDOMNode.text
Example
The following Microsoft® Visual Basic® example creates an IXMLDOMNode of type NODE_ENTITY, and then displays the object's text value, including that of any of the object's child nodes.
Dim xmlDoc As New Msxml2.DOMDocument50
Dim currNode As IXMLDOMNode
xmlDoc.async = False
xmlDoc.Load ("books.xml")
If (xmlDoc.parseError.errorCode <> 0) Then
Dim myErr
Set myErr = xmlDoc.parseError
MsgBox("You have error " & myErr.reason)
Else
Set currNode = xmlDoc.documentElement.childNodes.Item(0)
MsgBox currNode.Text
End If
C/C++ Syntax
HRESULT get_text(
BSTR *text);
HRESULT put_text(
BSTR text);
Parameters
- text [out, retval]
- A string representing the text content of this node and its descendants. This value varies depending on the value of the
nodeTypemethod.
C/C++ Return Values
- S_OK
- The value returned if successful.
- S_FALSE
- The value returned when there is no text.
- E_INVALIDARG
- The value returned if the
textparameter is Null.
Remarks
String. The property is read/write. When concatenated, the text represents the contents of text or CDATA nodes. All concatenated text nodes are normalized according to xml:space attributes and the value of the preserveWhiteSpace switch. Concatenated CDATA text is not normalized. (Child nodes that contain NODE_COMMENT and NODE_PROCESSING_INSTRUCTION nodes are not concatenated.) .text trims the whitespace on the edges of the result, and "normalizes" \r\n => \n, but otherwise just concatenates text.
Retrieves and sets the string representing the text contents of this node or the concatenated text representing this node and its descendants.
For more precise control over text manipulation in an XML document, use the lower-level nodeValue property, which returns the raw text associated with a NODE_TEXT node.
Consider the <root> element in this example:
<root att=" 123 a < "> <a> a a </a> <!-- comment b --> <?pi pi c ?> <![CDATA[ cdata d ]]> e f </root>
The text property for this element returns the following concatenated text.
"a a cdata d e f"
Note that the white space within the CDATA node is preserved.
This value depends on the value of the nodeType property.
| 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 (""). These node types do not have associated text. |
| NODE_DOCUMENT_FRAGMENT | Returns the text comprised of the concatenation of all descendant nodes. |
| NODE_ELEMENT | Contains a string that represents the element content. This will also include the text content from all child elements, concatenated in document order. For example, consider the following XML.
<count> <item>one</item> <item>two</item> <item>three</item> <item>four</item> </count> The |
| NODE_ENTITY_REFERENCE | Returns the string representation of the entity reference. |
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See Also
nodeType Property | nodeValue Property
Applies to: IXMLDOMAttribute | IXMLDOMCDATASection | IXMLDOMCharacterData | IXMLDOMComment | DOMDocument | IXMLDOMDocumentFragment | IXMLDOMDocumentType | IXMLDOMElement | IXMLDOMEntity | IXMLDOMEntityReference | IXMLDOMNode | IXMLDOMNotation | IXMLDOMProcessingInstruction | IXMLDOMText