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From: "Christoph M. Becker" <cmbecker69@arcor.de>
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Subject: Re: "Node.textContent"
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Stefan Ram wrote:

>   The web page at
> 
> developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Node
> 
>   contains: »
> 
>       Node.textContent
> 
>            Is a DOMString representing the textual content
>            of an element and all its descendants.
> 
>   «. Do I think correctly when I think that when this property
>   represents the textual content /of an element/, I would
>   expect it to be part of the interface »Element« and not »Node«?
> 
>   The documentation does not even bother to specify the value
>   or meaning of this property for a non-element node.

See the relevant specification:
<http://www.w3.org/TR/DOM-Level-3-Core/core.html#Node3-textContent>.

-- 
Christoph M. Becker