Characters Event

Fired for plain text segments of the input stream.

Syntax

rest.on('Characters', [callback])

Callback

The 'callback' is called when the 'Characters' event is emited.

function(e){ }

The argument 'e' has the following properties:

e.text (buffer)

Remarks

The Characters event provides the plain text content of the XML document (i.e. the text inside the tags). The text is provided through the Text parameter.

The text includes white space as well as end of line characters, except for ignorable whitespace which is fired through the IgnorableWhitespace event.