Getting an Element's Text

Once you know how to work with text, working with an element's text is straight-forward. The following function calls the element GetText() method asking for strings. It then iterates over any text items found and concatenates the values found into a single string.

The getElementText() function is shown below. An example of its use will be provided in my next post.

function getElementText(elem) {
    var  tItems, i, text = "";

    tItems = elem.GetText(Constants.FTI_String);
    for (i = 0; i < tItems.len; i += 1) {
        switch (tItems[i].dataType) {
        case Constants.FTI_String:
            text =  text + tItems[i].sdata;
            break;
        }
    }
    return text;
}