createTextNode Method

Creates a text node that contains the supplied data.

objXMLDOMText = oXMLDOMDocument.createTextNode(data)

Parameters

data

String specifying the value to be supplied to the new text object's nodeValue property.

Return Value

Object. Returns the new XMLDOMText object.

Remarks

Creating a text node with this method is the same as using createNode where the type parameter value is NODE_TEXT and no namespace is specified. You cannot specify a namespace with the createTextNode method.

Although this method creates the new object in the context of this document, it does not automatically add the new object to the document tree. (In other words, although the ownerDocument property of the new node points to this document object, the parentNode property is set to Null.) You must explicitly call one of the node insert methods—insertBefore, replaceChild, or appendChild—to add the new object.

The new object's nodeType property has the value NODE_TEXT.

Example

The following example creates an XMLDOMText object, and then uses the insertBefore method to place it before the first child node of the document:

Dim xmlDoc
Dim root
Dim MyText
Dim MyNewNode
Set xmlDoc = CreateObject("Msxml2.DOMDocument")
xmlDoc.async = False
xmlDoc.load("c:\books.xml")
Set root = xmlDoc.documentElement
Set MyText = xmlDoc.createTextNode ("Hello World")
Set MyNewNode = root.insertBefore (MyText, root.childNodes.item(0))

See Also

Applies To: DOMDocument Object