559300 - getElementsByTagName("name")[i].text doesn't work

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Core :: General, defect)

Description

[miguel]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; es-ES; rv:1.9.2.3) Gecko/20100401 Firefox/3.6.3 (.NET CLR 2.0.50727)
Build Identifier: mozilla firefox 3.6.3

When you try to parse a xml document in javascript using the documet.getElementsByTagName("name") doen't work properly. You can access to the property documet.getElementsByTagName("name").length for example, but you can't get the property documet.getElementsByTagName("name")[i].text, where i is one of the index of the element "name"

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Load a xml whith elements an text. Example <root><element>thing<element></root>
2.Try to access to text in <element> (thing) using docuement.getElementByTagName("element").text
3.You get undefinied



That way to access text in element works in IE (yeahh, internet explorer), opera, chrome, and firefox 2

Comment 1

[Nickolay_Ponomarev]

Can you attach a testcase? Why do you think an XML element should have a "text" property? I don't see it having one neither in Firefox 3.6, nor in Google Chrome.

(The property that does work is "textContent", as defined in DOM Core spec.)

Comment 2

[Nickolay_Ponomarev]

Please reopen if you come up with additional information. Thanks!