Gets the element's text value from the XML object provided.

def get_text(self, xml, name):
        """
        Gets the element's text value from the XML object provided.
        """
        nodes = xml.getElementsByTagName("wp:comment_" + name)[0].childNodes
        accepted_types = [Node.CDATA_SECTION_NODE, Node.TEXT_NODE]
        return "".join([n.data for n in nodes if n.nodeType in accepted_types])