Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact general-help@xml.apache.org; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list general@xml.apache.org Received: (qmail 68805 invoked from network); 21 Jun 2000 02:43:28 -0000 Received: from w110.web2010.com (root@216.157.57.254) by locus.apache.org with SMTP; 21 Jun 2000 02:43:28 -0000 Received: from apache.org (s2.almaden.ibm.com [198.4.83.37]) by w110.web2010.com (8.9.3/8.9.0) with ESMTP id WAA22195 for ; Tue, 20 Jun 2000 22:34:33 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <39502B04.2CFBFCB4@apache.org> Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2000 19:40:04 -0700 From: Andy Clark X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (WinNT; U) X-Accept-Language: de,ja,en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: general@xml.apache.org Subject: Re: question on setNodeValue() and appending nodes References: <86256904.0078F6F9.00@mail.techsol.com> <00ff01bfdb07$94e40a10$24d39580@jpl.nasa.gov> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Rating: locus.apache.org 1.6.2 0/1000/N Sean Kelly wrote: > errorNode.appendChild(MyDOM.createTextNode("Some_Error")); Sean is right. Element nodes do not have a node value. They contain text node children which have node values. -- Andy Clark * IBM, JTC - Silicon Valley * andyc@apache.org