XML DOM data Property
Complete CDATA Object Reference
Definition and Usage
The length property returns the number of characters in the selected node
Syntax
Example
The following code fragment loads "books_cdata.xml"
into xmlDoc using
loadXMLDoc() and gets the text node data and length from the first <title>
element:
Example
xmlDoc=loadXMLDoc("books_cdata.xml");
x=xmlDoc.getElementsByTagName("html")[0].childNodes[0];
document.write(x.data);
document.write(" - Length: ");
document.write(x.length);
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The output of the code above will be:
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Remember that the length above is from the entire CDATA section
(<b>Stunning!</b>), not just the text.
Complete CDATA Object Reference

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