-    setText: function(text) {
-        //console.log('smartxml: ' + text);
-        this.nativeNode.data = text;
-        this.triggerTextChangeEvent();
+    setText: {
+        impl: function(t, text) {
+            t.oldText = this.getText();
+            this.nativeNode.data = text;
+            this.triggerTextChangeEvent();
+        },
+        undo: function(t) {
+            this.setText(t.oldText);
+        }
+    },
+
+    before: INSERTION(function(node) {
+        if(node.nodeType === Node.TEXT_NODE) {
+            this.prependText(node.getText());
+            node.detach();
+            return this;
+        } else {
+            return this.__super__.before(node, {silent:true});
+        }
+    }),
+
+    after: INSERTION(function(node) {
+        if(node.nodeType === Node.TEXT_NODE) {
+            this.appendText(node.getText());
+            node.detach();
+            return this;
+        } else {
+            return this.__super__.after(node, {silent:true});
+        }
+    }),
+
+    append: function(node) {
+        if(node.nodeType === Node.TEXT_NODE) {
+            this.appendText(node.getText());
+            node.detach();
+            return this;
+        }
+    },
+    prepend: function(node) {
+        if(node.nodeType === Node.TEXT_NODE) {
+            this.prependText(node.getText());
+            node.detach();
+            return this;
+        }