2 files changed, 35 insertions, 9 deletions
diff --git a/lib/pure/xmltree.nim b/lib/pure/xmltree.nim
index 3c6eb14e3..5385705cd 100644
--- a/lib/pure/xmltree.nim
+++ b/lib/pure/xmltree.nim
@@ -91,13 +91,25 @@ proc rawTag*(n: XmlNode): string {.inline.} =
   shallowCopy(result, n.fTag)
 
 proc innerText*(n: XmlNode): string =
-  ## gets the inner text of `n`. `n` has to be an ``xnElement`` node. Only
-  ## ``xnText`` and ``xnEntity`` nodes are considered part of `n`'s inner text,
-  ## other child nodes are silently ignored.
-  result = ""
-  assert n.k == xnElement
-  for i in 0 .. n.s.len-1:
-    if n.s[i].k in {xnText, xnEntity}: result.add(n.s[i].fText)
+  ## gets the inner text of `n`:
+  ##
+  ## - If `n` is `xnText` or `xnEntity`, returns its content.
+  ## - If `n` is `xnElement`, runs recursively on each child node and
+  ##   concatenates the results.
+  ## - Otherwise returns an empty string.
+  var res = ""
+  proc worker(n: XmlNode) =
+    case n.k
+    of { xnText, xnEntity }:
+      res.add(n.fText)
+    of xnElement:
+      for sub in n.s:
+        worker(sub)
+    else:
+      discard
+
+  worker(n)
+  res
 
 proc tag*(n: XmlNode): string {.inline.} =
   ## gets the tag name of `n`. `n` has to be an ``xnElement`` node.
diff --git a/tests/stdlib/txmltree.nim b/tests/stdlib/txmltree.nim
index bfe2dc94a..a849859e3 100644
--- a/tests/stdlib/txmltree.nim
+++ b/tests/stdlib/txmltree.nim
@@ -1,6 +1,11 @@
 discard """
   file: "txmltree.nim"
-  output: "true"
+  output: '''true
+true
+true
+true
+true
+'''
 """
 
 import xmltree, strtabs
@@ -9,5 +14,14 @@ var x = <>a(href="nim.de", newText("www.nim-test.de"))
 
 echo($x == "<a href=\"nim.de\">www.nim-test.de</a>")
 
+echo(newText("foo").innerText == "foo")
+echo(newEntity("bar").innerText == "bar")
+echo(newComment("baz").innerText == "")
 
-
+let y = newXmlTree("x", [
+  newText("foo"),
+  newXmlTree("y", [
+    newText("bar")
+  ])
+])
+echo(y.innerText == "foobar")