[Solved] read cdata in xml from javascript

Whilst we can’t say for sure without the XML that’s being parsed, the usual reason for ‘getting blanks’ from childNodes[0] (firstChild) is that there is a whitespace Text node between the parent’s start-tag and the node you are looking for: <data> <![CDATA[ foo ]]> </data> On an XML parser that retains CDATA sections, that’ll give … Read more