Android XML Node to String Convert getStrFromNode(Node xpathnode)

Description

Method getStrFromNode

License

Apache License

Parameter

Parameter	Description
xpathnode	a parameter

Return

the string for the node.

Declaration

public static String getStrFromNode(Node xpathnode) 

Method Source Code

//package com.java2s;
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import org.w3c.dom.Attr;

import org.w3c.dom.Node;

import org.w3c.dom.ProcessingInstruction;
import org.w3c.dom.Text;

public class Main {
    /**
     * Method getStrFromNode
     *
     * @param xpathnode
     * @return the string for the node.
     */
    public static String getStrFromNode(Node xpathnode) {
        if (xpathnode.getNodeType() == Node.TEXT_NODE) {
            // we iterate over all siblings of the context node because eventually,
            // the text is "polluted" with pi's or comments
            StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();

            for (Node currentSibling = xpathnode.getParentNode()
                    .getFirstChild(); currentSibling != null; currentSibling = currentSibling
                    .getNextSibling()) {
                if (currentSibling.getNodeType() == Node.TEXT_NODE) {
                    sb.append(((Text) currentSibling).getData());
                }
            }

            return sb.toString();
        } else if (xpathnode.getNodeType() == Node.ATTRIBUTE_NODE) {
            return ((Attr) xpathnode).getNodeValue();
        } else if (xpathnode.getNodeType() == Node.PROCESSING_INSTRUCTION_NODE) {
            return ((ProcessingInstruction) xpathnode).getNodeValue();
        }

        return null;
    }
}

Related

1. elementToString(Node n)