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Re: Get inner text of HMTL element

From Cezary Tomczyk <cezary.tomczyk@gmail.com>
Newsgroups comp.lang.javascript
Subject Re: Get inner text of HMTL element
Date 2014-02-22 22:23 +0100
Organization A noiseless patient Spider
Message-ID <leb4g2$a1j$2@dont-email.me> (permalink)
References <leambb$nfo$1@dont-email.me> <2186233.TZ7MnjCRox@PointedEars.de>

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Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn wrote:
> Cezary Tomczyk wrote:
>
>> To get inner text of HTML element I've been using:
>>
>> function get_inner_text(node) {
>>       if (node.nodeType === 3) {
>>           return node.data;
>>       }
>>
>>       var txt = '';
>>
>>       node = node.firstChild;
>>       while (node) {
>>           txt += get_inner_text(node);
>>           node = node.nextSibling;
>>       }
>>       return txt.replace(/\s+/g, ' ');
>                ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> This is _not_ equivalent to node.textContent, see
> <http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/REC-DOM-Level-3-Core-20040407/core.html#Node3-textContent>.

I see. In documentation I've read that "No whitespace normalization is 
performed and the returned string does not contain the white spaces in 
element content[...]."

As for "whitespace normalization" I found that it's about "(spaces, 
tabs, and blank lines)" (http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml/#sec-white-space). 
However, "blank lines" means "new line" using \r\n or \r or \n, right?

Also, how "whitespace normalization" should work? E.g. replacing "   " 
to " "? Any suggestions? In the meantime I am doing some research around 
that.

-- 
Cezary Tomczyk
http://www.ctomczyk.pl/

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Get inner text of HMTL element Cezary Tomczyk <cezary.tomczyk@gmail.com> - 2014-02-22 18:21 +0100
  Re: Get inner text of HMTL element Martin Honnen <mahotrash@yahoo.de> - 2014-02-22 19:31 +0100
    Re: Get inner text of HMTL element Cezary Tomczyk <cezary.tomczyk@gmail.com> - 2014-02-22 20:51 +0100
      Re: Get inner text of HMTL element Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2014-02-22 21:11 +0100
        Re: Get inner text of HMTL element Cezary Tomczyk <cezary.tomczyk@gmail.com> - 2014-02-22 21:37 +0100
          Re: Get inner text of HMTL element Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2014-02-22 22:05 +0100
            Re: Get inner text of HMTL element Cezary Tomczyk <cezary.tomczyk@gmail.com> - 2014-02-22 23:38 +0100
              Re: Get inner text of HMTL element Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2014-02-23 10:43 +0100
                Re: Get inner text of HMTL element Cezary Tomczyk <cezary.tomczyk@gmail.com> - 2014-02-23 14:50 +0100
                Re: Get inner text of HMTL element Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2014-02-23 15:48 +0100
                Re: Get inner text of HMTL element Cezary Tomczyk <cezary.tomczyk@gmail.com> - 2014-02-24 21:01 +0100
                Re: Get inner text of HMTL element Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2014-02-24 22:34 +0100
                Re: Get inner text of HMTL element Cezary Tomczyk <cezary.tomczyk@gmail.com> - 2014-02-27 21:41 +0100
                Re: Get inner text of HMTL element Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2014-02-27 22:32 +0100
                Re: Get inner text of HMTL element Cezary Tomczyk <cezary.tomczyk@gmail.com> - 2014-02-28 13:44 +0100
                Re: Get inner text of HMTL element Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2014-02-28 16:54 +0100
                Re: Get inner text of HMTL element Cezary Tomczyk <cezary.tomczyk@gmail.com> - 2014-03-04 20:51 +0100
                Re: Get inner text of HMTL element ompalompasales2@gmail.com - 2014-03-04 12:59 -0800
  Re: Get inner text of HMTL element Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2014-02-22 20:59 +0100
    Re: Get inner text of HMTL element Cezary Tomczyk <cezary.tomczyk@gmail.com> - 2014-02-22 22:23 +0100
      Re: Get inner text of HMTL element Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2014-02-22 23:32 +0100
  Re: Get inner text of HMTL element Joao Rodrigues <groups_jr-1@yahoo.com.br> - 2014-02-22 21:27 -0300
    Re: Get inner text of HMTL element "se" <se@no-one.here> - 2014-02-23 05:35 +0100
      Re: Get inner text of HMTL element Joao Rodrigues <groups_jr-1@yahoo.com.br> - 2014-02-23 15:29 -0300
        Re: Get inner text of HMTL element "se" <se@no-one.here> - 2014-02-23 21:01 +0100
    Re: Get inner text of HMTL element Cezary Tomczyk <cezary.tomczyk@gmail.com> - 2014-02-23 20:02 +0100
      Re: Get inner text of HMTL element Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2014-02-23 21:55 +0100
        Re: Get inner text of HMTL element Cezary Tomczyk <cezary.tomczyk@gmail.com> - 2014-02-24 08:37 +0100
          Re: Get inner text of HMTL element Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2014-02-24 12:30 +0100
            Re: Get inner text of HMTL element Joao Rodrigues <groups_jr-1@yahoo.com.br> - 2014-02-24 15:09 -0300
              Re: Get inner text of HMTL element Christoph Michael Becker <cmbecker69@arcor.de> - 2014-02-24 19:43 +0100
                Re: Get inner text of HMTL element Joao Rodrigues <groups_jr-1@yahoo.com.br> - 2014-02-24 18:12 -0300
                Re: Get inner text of HMTL element Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2014-02-24 22:51 +0100
              Re: Get inner text of HMTL element Dr J R Stockton <reply1400@merlyn.demon.co.uk.invalid> - 2014-02-25 19:49 +0000
                Re: Get inner text of HMTL element Joao Rodrigues <groups_jr-1@yahoo.com.br> - 2014-02-26 05:20 -0300
                Re: Get inner text of HMTL element "se" <se@no-one.here> - 2014-02-26 17:10 +0100
                OT - Re: Get inner text of HMTL element Joao Rodrigues <groups_jr-1@yahoo.com.br> - 2014-02-26 15:48 -0300
                Re: OT - Re: Get inner text of HMTL element "Evertjan." <exxjxw.hannivoort@inter.nl.net> - 2014-02-26 22:43 +0100
                Re: OT - Re: Get inner text of HMTL element Dr J R Stockton <reply1400@merlyn.demon.co.uk.invalid> - 2014-02-27 15:00 +0000
                Re: OT - Re: Get inner text of HMTL element "Evertjan." <exxjxw.hannivoort@inter.nl.net> - 2014-02-28 10:50 +0100
                Re: OT - Re: Get inner text of HMTL element "se" <se@no-one.here> - 2014-02-27 10:57 +0100
                Re: Get inner text of HMTL element Dr J R Stockton <reply1400@merlyn.demon.co.uk.invalid> - 2014-02-27 15:46 +0000

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