Wow - perfect! Thanks, Dean
On 8/31/05, Dean Fiala <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> Yes, if there are nodes within a node, .InnerText will return...
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> The InnerText, which will include the XML mark up used to define those
> nodes.
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> There is a way however to just get the text not inside of any child nodes.
> The text is actually in a node called #text.
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> The xpath expression to get it is text(), so to get the text portion of
> your
> ChildNodes(1) would be...
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> Dim strValue as String = oNode.ChildNodes
> (1).SelectSingleNode("text()").Value
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> Of course, this will return nothing if there is no text, so you'll want to
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> On 8/31/05, Eliezer Broder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> > I need to get a text value contained in a child node of this oNode:
> > Dim oNode As Xml.XmlNode
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> > The way I was attempting was:
> > Dim strValue as String = oNode.ChildNodes(1).InnerText
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> > That works *right now* - but I was told that if there would be child
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> > within ChildNodes(1) - I'd end up getting XML markup mixed in that value
> > strValue - and I need just the plain text value.
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> > oNode.ChildNodes(1).Value = Nothing.
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> > *What's the best way to get the plain text value of this child node?*
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> > Thanks,
> > Eliezer
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