[TIMOB-862] on android cdata from xml returns blank

found answer on q&a, this works on android:

   var description = item.getElementsByTagName("description").item(0).firstChild.nodeValue.text;
   

please close this ticket. thanks.

This bug is legitimate, and also affects other sorts of situations such as embedded child elements:

       Ti.XML.parseString('<div>foo <span>bar</span> baz</div>').documentElement.text
   

gives 'foo bar baz' as expected on iPhone;
gives 'foo baz' on Android.

The bug is in ElementProxy:

       public String getText() {
               StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
               NodeList children = element.getChildNodes();
               for (int i = 0; i < children.getLength(); i++)
               {
                       Node child = children.item(i);
                       if (child.getNodeType() == Node.TEXT_NODE) {
   

// ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

                               sb.append(((Text)child).getNodeValue());
                       }
               }
   
               return sb.toString();
       }
   

That explicit check for text child nodes fails to include text content from character entities, CDATA sections, or child elements which themselves contain text.

(from [9b3c7fa6daba96d532b223be26f7746aa97e0231]) also handle elements, entities, and CDATA sections in ElementProxy.getText() [#862 state:resolved] http://github.com/appcelerator/titanium_mobile/commit/9b3c7fa6daba96d532b223be26f7746aa97e0231"> http://github.com/appcelerator/titanium_mobile/commit/9b3c7fa6daba9...

Confirmed that fixes my problem case -- thanks!