With IE5.0 you may use:

> node.getChildNodes().item(0).firstChild.nodeValue
> 
Bye.

> ----------
> From: 	Edas Pazera[SMTP:edas@xxxxxxx]
> Reply To: 	xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Sent: 	lunedì 19 aprile 1999 11.34
> To: 	xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: 	Bugs?
> 
> OK, someone tell me I am not crazy yet... :-)
> 
> I have tried all ways I could think of, but I still can't get a simple
> function return the value of a child node.
> 
> It is my assumption--confirmed by OpenXML API documentation--that the
> following line--
> 
> node.getChildNodes().item(0).getNodeValue()
> 
> would return "A" as defined in the XML code below--
> 
> <parent>
> 	<child1>A</child1>
> 	    ...
> 	<childN>Z</childN>
> </parent>
> 
> All I get is empty string!!!  I have no problem getting the name of the
> tag,
> but not the value?!  What am I missing here?
> 
> On the side note, I have to admit that while slowly and painfully weeding
> my
> way through servlets/xml/xsl, I am getting somewhere and am liking it a
> lot!
> Great effort from respective developers...
> 
> - Edas
> 
> 
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