`p5.XML.listChildren()` inserts `#text` unexpectedly

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p5.js version

1.9.3

Web browser and version

Chrome 124.0.6367.208

Operating system

macOS 14.4.1

Steps to reproduce this

Steps:

1. Call myXML.listChildren().
2. View the returned array.

Snippet:

/*
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<animals>
  <mammal id="0" species="Capra hircus">Goat</mammal>
  <mammal id="1" species="Panthera pardus">Leopard</mammal>
  <mammal id="2" species="Equus zebra">Zebra</mammal>
  <reptile id="3" species="Caretta caretta">Turtle</reptile>
</animals>
*/

let myXML;

// Load the XML and create a p5.XML object.
function preload() {
  myXML = loadXML('assets/animals.xml');
}

function setup() {
  noCanvas();

  // Get the names of the element's children as an array.
  let children = myXML.listChildren();

  // Print the array to the console.
  // Desired: ["mammal", "mammal", "mammal", "reptile"]
  // Actual: ["#text", "mammal", "#text", "mammal", "#text", "mammal", "#text", "reptile", "#text"]
  print(children);
}

Here's the sketch for reference.

Start at the p5.XML.listChildren() entry point and reproduce the behavior with the linked sketch or the XML snippet in the issue. Compare the returned names with the desired array, ensuring whitespace-only text nodes are not included; done means the result contains only the four element names.