Document.createTextNode(String data) has the following syntax.
Text createTextNode(String data)
In the following code shows how to use Document.createTextNode(String data) method.
import java.io.StringReader; //from w ww.j ava 2 s . co m import javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilder; import javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilderFactory; import org.w3c.dom.Document; import org.w3c.dom.Text; import org.xml.sax.InputSource; public class Main { public static void main(String args[]) throws Exception{ DocumentBuilderFactory builderFactory = DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance(); DocumentBuilder builder = builderFactory.newDocumentBuilder(); // Create the parser Document xmlDoc = builder.parse(new InputSource(new StringReader(xmlString))); Text text = xmlDoc.createTextNode("text"); } static String xmlString ="<?xml version=\"1.0\"?>" + " <address id='asdf'>" + " <buildingnumber> 29 </buildingnumber>" + " <street> South Street</street>" + " <city>Vancouver</city>" + "" + " <state>BC</state>" + " <zip>V6V 4U7</zip>" + " </address>"; }