Java tutorial
//package com.java2s; import org.w3c.dom.DOMException; import org.w3c.dom.Node; public class Main { public static String getChildValue(Node node) throws DOMException { Node child = node.getFirstChild(); if (child != null) { String val = child.getNodeValue(); if (val.toUpperCase().startsWith("[CDATA")) { val = val.substring(7, val.length() - 2); } return val; } else return "NULL"; } }