XML Parsing - node.text method removing trailling spaces

I have a big xml file which i'm parsing using jscript. I have used the following code to load the xml

var xmlDoc = Sys.OleObject("Msxml2.DOMDocument.6.0");
xmlDoc.async = false;

// Load xml data from a file
xmlDoc.load(this._studyDocPath);
Now if i use the following code

var text = this.xmlDoc.selectSingleNode(xPath);
text = node.text;
the text variable holds the innertext of a perticular tag. But if I have tag like this

<Text>ABCD </Text>
then the node.text returns me only the value 'ABCD' i.e. it automatically trims the space. But I dont need to trim any trailling spaces. I need the text as it is. How can I achieve that?

Looking forward to your response

Thanks in Advance

We can use node.firstChild.nodeValue with a null check on node.firstChild