getting element value in DOM

[Eric Bohlman]

On Fri, 5 Nov 1999, Hokkun Pang wrote:

> I have read the DOM level 1 a couple times but I simply don't
> see the API for accessing the entity value.
> Suppose I am parsing this:
> 
> 	<email>abc at yahoo.com</email>
> 
> which API should I use to get the 'abc at yahoo.com'?

"abc at yahoo.com" is the value ('data' property) of a Text node which is the
first child of the Element node whose tagName is 'email'), so assuming
that MyElement is the Element node, you'd access the value (FSVO language
binding) as MyElement.firstChild.data.



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