XML in a Nutshell, 3rd Edition

Name

nodeValue: DOMString

Synopsis

Intended to provide a reasonable string value for the underlying DOM object. Depending on the nodeType, this property may be read-only, read/write, or null. This table lists the values for the object types.

Object type	nodeValue
Element	null
Attr	Attribute value
Text	Text node content
CDATASection	CDATA section content
EntityReference	null
Entity	null
ProcessingInstruction	Entire content, excluding the target
Comment	Comment content
Document	null
DocumentType	null
DocumentFragment	null
Notation	null

Exceptions

NO_MODIFICATION_ALLOWED_ERR

Indicates the nodeValue attribute is read-only for this DOM object type.

DOMSTRING_SIZE_ERR

This exception is raised if the value that would be returned is too large to be contained by a DOMString type in the given implementation.

Java bindings

public String getNodeValue( ) throws DOMException;
public void setNodeValue(String nodeValue) throws DOMException;

Java example

// If this node is a text node, make the value lowercase
if (nd.getNodeType( ) =  = Node.TEXT_NODE) {
    // make it lowercase
    nd.setNodeValue(nd.getNodeValue( ).toLowerCase( ));
}