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 "books_cdata.xmlLoad 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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