XML DOM substringData() Method

Complete CDATA Object Reference

Definition and Usage

The substringData() method gets a string from the CDATA node.

Syntax

CDATANode.substringData(start,length)

Example

The following code fragment loads "books_cdata.xml" into xmlDoc using loadXMLDoc() and gets the "Stun" string form the first CDATA element:

xmlDoc=loadXMLDoc("books_cdata.xml");

x=xmlDoc.getElementsByTagName("html")[0].childNodes[0]

y=x.substringData(3,4);

document.write(x.nodeValue);
document.write("<br />");
document.write(y);}

Output:

Stunning!
Stun

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