Getting all the text values in an XML node

[Rothrock]

Suppose I've got an XMLList that I'm working my way through and I want to quickly and easily get all the "text" from the node. In other works strip out all the <xmtag> mark up and possible attributes and just leave the content.

Is there an easy/fast way to do that?

<myNode>

     <title>The title of an event here</title>

     <presenter>Name and title of presenter here</presenter>

     <date startTime="Somedate" />

      <desc><![CDATA[Some text in here. It <b>might</b> have html or links or some such.]]></desc>

     <resources>

          <res>A list of some resources, downloads, etc.</res>

           <res>Some other site or some such</res>

     </resources>

</myNode>

[kglad · Accepted solution]

if xml is your XML instance, after loading is complete:

trace(xml.descedants("*").text());

[Rothrock]

Awesome. I'm going to give that at try and see if I can speed up my indexing code. A big chunk of it has been removing all the "junk" before stemming the words.

[kglad]

i'm not sure how fast that is but it's sure easy to code.

[Rothrock]

Yeah. My indexing is taking longer than I would like. So far I've been using RegEx and some other tricks. Just wanted to see if there was another way to approach it. Maybe it will be faster, maybe it won't, but I won't know until I try!

[kglad]

regex is slow.  it's faster to use the flash string/array methods.