Get the first part of the innertext

Question

This is what I got:

<xml>I need this text<notthistext>blahblah<notthistext></xml>

How can I get: I need this text

I am using .value and it is returning the text for everything like this: I need this textblahblah

Answer 1

In python it would be: somexml.firstChild.firstChild.data or somexml.getElementsByTagName('xml').firstChild[0].data

Answer 2

This is actually for linq

The trick was to get all the nodes under the element and just reference the first node using the First function rather then using value