Question

I have an XML document with some sample content like this:

<someTag>
 <![CDATA[Hello World]]>
</someTag>

I’m parsing the above XML in JavaScript. When I try access and render the Hello World text using xmldoc.getElementsByTagName("someTag")[0].childNodes[0].textContent all I get was a blank text on screen.

The code is not returning undefined or any error messages. So I guess the code is properly accessing the message. But due to CDATA, it is not rendering properly on screen.

Anyway to fix the issue and get the Hello World out of this xml file?

Answer 1

If you’re running Firefox, maybe this is the issue you’re having. The behavior looks very similair… The following might do the trick:

xmldoc.getElementsByTagName("someTag")[0].childNodes[1].textContent;