Paul Cowan <evolt at funkwit.com> wrote: > Is there an easy way to do this? In DOM Level 3 Core there is a 'textContent' property which will do this for you. However this is relatively new and Level 3 is not yet supported by any released version of MSXML. There does also seem to be a MS-only property 'text' which does more or less the same thing: http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/xmlsdk/html/b9f053cf-84cf-4a1c-9d7e-b3aabf9830a2.asp > He can obviously do a loop through the > child nodes of mynode, check if they're type TEXT_NODE or > CDATA_SECTION_NODE That's the normal way of doing it if you can't rely on either of the above being available. -- Andrew Clover mailto:and at doxdesk.com http://www.doxdesk.com/