Re: What is #text??

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From: Dave (dave5398_at_btinternet.com)
Date: 10/06/04 

Date: Wed, 6 Oct 2004 18:18:23 +0100

"Daniel Kirsch" <Iwillnotread_daniel@gmx.de> wrote in message
news:ck177c$j1o$00$2@news.t-online.com...
> Dave wrote:
> > For text nodes, the nodeName
> > actually displays "#text" while nodeValue is null.
>
> nodeValue should be the text of that textnode. If no text is defined for
> that node, the value should be not null but an empty string ("") - which
> sometimes makes a difference :-)
>
> Daniel

Apologies, you are correct. nodeValue does indeed display the actual text,
while nodeName displays #text.

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