XML DOM lengthProperty
CDATA object
Definition and Usage
The length property returns the number of characters in the selected node.
Syntax
CDATANode.length
Example
The following code snippet usesloadXMLDoc()put "Load into xmlDoc, and get 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);
x=xmlDoc.getElementsByTagName("html")[0].childNodes[0];
document.write(x.data);
document.write(" - Length: ");
document.write(x.length);
The above code will output:
Stunning! - Length: 16
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Remember that the length above is the length of the entire CDATA section (<b>Stunning!</b>), not just the length of the text.
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