dojox.data.XmlItem.toString() truncates content at 4096 characters in Firefox

[Ayhan Ergul]

When using Firefox (tested on 2.x), querying an XmlStore? returns XmlItem? objects with content truncated at 4096 characters when accessed via toString(). This is due to Firefox breaking up large text nodes into multiple text nodes with no more than 4096 characters (apparently to improve the performance of its page layout algorithm). The toString() implementation returns only the first text node's content, effectively limiting return value to 4096 characters:

	toString: function() {
		//	summary:
		//		Return a value of the first text child of the element
		// 	returns:
		//		a value of the first text child of the element
		var str = "";
		if (this.element) {
			for (var i = 0; i < this.element.childNodes.length; i++) {
				var node = this.element.childNodes[i];
				if (node.nodeType === 3) {
					str = node.nodeValue;
					break;
				}
			}
		}
		return str;	//String
	}

Replacing the following section of code:

					str = node.nodeValue;
					break;

with:

					str = str + node.nodeValue;

would appear to resolve this issue.

Ayhan Ergul

[Jared Jurkiewicz]

Will include a fix for this as part of the work to support identity in 1.3

[Jared Jurkiewicz]

Minor patch, varient of suggestion.

[Jared Jurkiewicz]

Tested on:

Firefox 2.0

IE 7

Safari 3.1

Google Chrome