Re: DOM, how to get text out of text node

Andrea Belvedere wrote:
> Hi all,
> i am stack on this:
> i am parsing a dom document, i reach a text node, but i can't get the
> text out of the text node.
> Hope some one can help.
> this is the code:
> 
> childs is a nsIDOMNodeList.
> 
>  	PRUint32 len, i;
>         childs->GetLength( &len );
>         nsCOMPtr<nsIDOMNode> child;
>         nsEmbedString name;
>         nsEmbedString value;
>         PRUint16 type;
>         for( i = 0; i < len; i++ ) {
>             childs->Item( i, getter_AddRefs( child ) );
>             child->GetNodeType( &type );
>             child->GetLocalName( name );
> 
> 	    // TEXT_NOTE here
>             if( type == nsIDOMNode::TEXT_NODE ) {
>                 httpsec_log( stderr, "%s\n", "TEXT_NODE" );
>                 nsCOMPtr<nsIDOMText> data = do_QueryInterface( child );
>                 NS_ENSURE_TRUE( data, NS_ERROR_UNEXPECTED );
> 
>                 data->GetData( value );
>                 // there is nothing in value, when i print it
>                 httpsec_log( stderr, "%s\n", NS_ConvertUTF16toUTF8(
> value ).get() );
>                 data->GetNodeValue( value );
> 	        // again nothing here
>                 httpsec_log( stderr, "%s\n", NS_ConvertUTF16toUTF8(
> value ).get() );
>             }

You want DOMNode->GetNodeValue() - see nsIDOMNode.idl.