Jason:  Thanks for the tip.  scrapeText did exactly what I was looking
for.  Machineghost, thanks for your input as well.  I was working out
the details of that implementation, but thought the scrapeText was a
cleaner way for me to handle it.

-Jim

On Dec 10, 12:32 pm, "Jason Bunting" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> To what end do you want to get at the text? If you simply want to grab it,
> use scrapeText()...
>
> Jason
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: mochikit@googlegroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
> > Behalf Of JS
> > Sent: Monday, December 10, 2007 8:53 AM
> > To: MochiKit
> > Subject: [mochikit] Walk child nodes of an element
>
> > Hi:
>
> > I'm quite new to MochiKit and javascript in general.  For some reason,
> > I can't figure out how to walk the child nodes of an element.  I'm
> > using version 1.3.1 of MochiKit with TurboGears.
>
> > I have table cell and am trying to drill down into the cell to get at
> > the text that is being displayed in it.  The cell could have some SPAN
> > elements and then either text or a link.
>
> > In effect, I would like to do the following:
>
> > ...
> > while cell.hasChildren() {
> >     cell = cell.firstChild;
> > }
>
> > I realize that each cell could have multiple children, but in my
> > specific case, it won't.
>
> > I'd really appreciate any pointers to examples or good documentation.
>
> > Thanks
>
> > -Jim

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