[thelist] ignore xml whitespace?
Diane Soini
dianesoini at earthlink.net
Sun Jun 27 10:40:47 CDT 2004
On Sunday, June 27, 2004, at 04:12 AM, thelist-request at lists.evolt.org
wrote:
>
> function childElements(parentNode) {
> var l= new Array();
> for (var i= 0; i<parentNode.childNodes.length; i++)
> if (parentNode.childNodes[i].nodeType==1)
> l[l.length]= parentNode.childNodes[i];
> return l;
> }
>
> Or you could even removeChild the whitespaces. But often, judicious
> use of getElementsByTagName, the HTMLCollection-based properties, and
> just skipping over text nodes may do the trick.
>
> --
> Andrew Clover
Thank you. The use of getElementsByTagName is probably best, although
not as simple (seemingly) as hasChildNodes.
Thanks again.
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