When a document is first made available to the DOM, there is only one Text node for each block of text. Users may subsequently add adjacent Text nodes to represent the content of an Element without any intervening markup, but should be aware that there is no way to represent the separations between these nodes in XML or HTML, and that they will not persist between DOM editing sessions.

If you wish to maintain a DOM structure between sessions, it is recommended that you use the Element object's normalize method to combine adjacent Text nodes into one single one.

In the following example we load the 'albums.xml' file and append a new Text child node to the 'title' element of the last album. The code then iterates through that element's children displaying the value of each.

XML:
<Albums>
   <Album ref="CD142" category="Folk">
      <title>Boil The Breakfast Early</title>
      <artist>The Chieftains</artist>
   </Album>
   <Album ref="CD720" category="Pop">
      <title>Come On Over</title>
      <artist>Shania Twain</artist>
   </Album>
   <Album ref="CD024" category="Country">
      <title>Red Dirt Girl</title>
      <artist>Emmylou Harris</artist>
   </Album>
</Albums>

Code (VBScript):
Set objXMLDoc = CreateObject("Microsoft.XMLDOM")
objXMLDoc.async = False
objXMLDoc.load("albums.xml")

Set Elem = objXMLDoc.documentElement.childNodes.item(2).firstChild
Set Text = objXMLDoc.createTextNode("Move along, nothing to see here.")
Elem.appendChild(Text)
numChildren = Elem.childNodes.length

For i = 0 To numChildren-1
   document.write(Elem.childNodes.item(i).nodeValue & "<br>")
Next

Output:
Red Dirt Girl
Move along, nothing to see here.

A Text object is also a Node object, and so inherits various properties and methods from it. For details of the values returned by the nodeName, nodeType and nodeValue properties for a Text object, see the Node object.