 throws org.w3c.dom.DOMException</PRE>
<DL>
<DD>The character data of the node that implements this interface. The DOM 
 implementation may not put arbitrary limits on the amount of data 
 that may be stored in a <code>CharacterData</code> node. However, 
 implementation limits may mean that the entirety of a node's data may 
 not fit into a single <code>DOMString</code>. In such cases, the user 
 may call <code>substringData</code> to retrieve the data in 
 appropriately sized pieces.<DD><DL>
<DT><B>Overri