From 319c8f87ef9deb493d6ad2ae29579fa7e3441fe2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: crschmidt <crschmidt@crschmidt.net>
Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2008 23:11:03 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Exceptions in Firefox are slow. (The costs of the lovely
 exception.stack, most likely.) Don't depend on exceptions for parsing XML,
 then: instead, use an if/else. 3x speed up of WMC parsing in FF. r=ahocevar
 (Closes #1642)

git-svn-id: http://svn.openlayers.org/trunk/openlayers@7870 dc9f47b5-9b13-0410-9fdd-eb0c1a62fdaf
---
 lib/OpenLayers/Format/XML.js | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/lib/OpenLayers/Format/XML.js b/lib/OpenLayers/Format/XML.js
index 2998d85522..a55f120ff6 100644
--- a/lib/OpenLayers/Format/XML.js
+++ b/lib/OpenLayers/Format/XML.js
@@ -290,9 +290,9 @@ OpenLayers.Format.XML = OpenLayers.Class(OpenLayers.Format, {
      */
     getChildValue: function(node, def) {
         var value;
-        try {
+        if (node && node.firstChild && node.firstChild.nodeValue) { 
             value = node.firstChild.nodeValue;
-        } catch(e) {
+        } else {
             value = (def != undefined) ? def : "";
         }
         return value;