">character data</a>,
    and
    <a href="syntax.html#syntax-comments" id="syntax-comments_xref4">comments</a>
    that it contains.
    Attributes and their values are not considered to be the
    &#8220;contents&#8221; of an element.</p>
    <p>The
    <dfn id="text-content" title="text-content">text content</dfn>
    of an element is as defined in
    <cite>Document Object Model (DOM) Level 3 Core</cite>
    <a href="references.html#refsDOMCore" id="refsDOMCore_xref2">[DOM Core]</a>.</p>
    <p>A
    <d