[thelist] XML DOM question (possibly a silly one, possibly not)

[Paul Cowan]

Hey all,

One of my colleagues here is having a bit of an issue with the MS XML DOM 
objects and, not being overly familiar with them, thought I'd handball the 
query onto thelist.

Suppose the following XML fragment:
	<mynode>
		Some data. More data. <![CDATA[ Some data with < in it. ]]>
		<subnode>
			A subnode smack in the middle of the other nodes.
		</subnode>
		The last bit of data.
	</mynode>
is represented by an object "mynode". He wants to get all the text of 
"mynode", without including subelements... so he'd like
	Some data. More data. Some data with < in it. The last bit of data.
but if he calls mynode.text, he gets
	Some data. More data. Some data with < in it. A subnode smack
	in the middle of the other nodes. The last bit of data.

Is there an easy way to do this? He can obviously do a loop through the 
child nodes of mynode, check if they're type TEXT_NODE or 
CDATA_SECTION_NODE, and if so append their value to a string but he's 
convinced there's a better way to do it in one fell swoop. Any ideas?

Thanks in advance for your help,

Paul Cowan