Empty Nodes Weird Problem

[ca4928]

I started with XML this morning, and after playing arund with it for a while, I've found my problem. Every Alternate childNode for every Node in my document is an empty blank node.


For example

<DOCUMENT>
<ONE>Hello</ONE>
<TWO>Goodbye</TWO>
</DOCUMENT>

using javascript

documentElement.childNodes[1].childNodes[0]=Hello
documentElement.childNodes[3].childNodes[0]=Goodbye

I think that these should be accessed as childNodes[0] and [1], but they are not. If i try to access these i get an error.

documentElement.childNodes[0].childNodes[0]
documentElement.firstChild.childNodes[0]
documentElement.lastChild.childNodes[0]
'Error, (document.childNodes[0] || document.firstChild) has no properties'

Does anyone know what the problem is? If it is a problem!

 

[JontyMC]

You have line breaks (whitespace) in your XML.

http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Whitespace_in_the_DOM

If you have no line breaks:

<DOCUMENT><ONE>Hello</ONE><TWO>Goodbye</TWO></DOCUMENT>

It will behave as you expect. But at the moment, you essentially have:

<DOCUMENT>#text<ONE>Hello</ONE>#text<TWO>Goodbye</TWO>#text</DOCUMENT>

Jon

"I don't regret this, but I both rue and lament it.

 

[ca4928]

OK, Thanks