What is #text?

[Sangita Gupta]

Hi all,
This is my xml document:
<?xml...etc>
<Element>
<Element1>gg</Element1>
</Element>
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I loaded this document and have a doc. I have a RootElement of type
DOM_Element which is the root of the document. I am doing :

DOM_Element RootElement = doc.getDocumentElement();
DOM_Node ChildElement = RootElement.getFirstChild();
cout<< ChildElement.getNodeName().transcode();

This outputs #text whereas I am expecting to see Element1.
what is the deal?

Thanks in adv.
-s