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When textContent is set for Text or Comment nodes, it says "Set context object's data to the new value.". It should say something like "Replace data with offset 0, count length, and data new value.", along the lines of the data attribute. That was the only occurrence I spotted.
https://bitbucket.org/ms2ger/dom-core/changeset/9fa058a8b943