206729 - After loading an XML document, when performing a search for childNodes of particluar element, it gives all the descendants, not just the child nodes

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 26179

(Core :: DOM: Core & HTML, defect)

Description

[Jarrad]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 1.0.3705)
Build Identifier: Mozilla 1.3.1

If I load an Xml document, and pull out a particular element. If I then use
myElement = element.childNodes;

It will return to me all descendent nodes, not just child nodes. 
ie if I had
<Parent>
   <Title> SomeText </Title>
<Parent>

it will tell me I have two child nodes, when by w3c spec, the Text Node is 
actually the child of the Title Node ( or grandchild of Parent)

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.load document
2.searchForelementByTagName
3.getChildNodes
4.Look at results

Actual Results:  
I get all the descendant nodes


Expected Results:  
I only want the child nodes

Comment 1

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

There is a #text node inside <parent> but before the <title> node... (look at
the DOM in DOM inspector, and make sure display of whitespace-only nodes is
enabled).

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 26179 ***