Java tutorial
//package com.java2s; /******************************************************************************* * Copyright (c) 2012 Firestar Software, Inc. * All rights reserved. This program and the accompanying materials * are made available under the terms of the Eclipse Public License v1.0 * which accompanies this distribution, and is available at * http://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-v10.html * * Contributors: * Firestar Software, Inc. - initial API and implementation * * Author: * Gabriel Oancea * *******************************************************************************/ import org.w3c.dom.*; public class Main { /** * Get the text of a text (simple content) element. Will return an empty string if not found or empty. * * @param e The element. * @return The text of the specified element, null if it has no text nodes. */ public static String getTextString(Element e) { String s = getText(e); return s == null ? "" : s; } /** * Get the trimmed text of a text (simple content) element. * * @param e The element. * @return The text of the specified element, null if it has no text nodes. */ public static String getText(Element e) { if (e == null) return null; NodeList lst = e.getChildNodes(); int size = lst.getLength(); for (int i = 0; i < size; i++) { Node n = lst.item(i); if (n.getNodeType() == Node.TEXT_NODE) { Text t = (Text) n; String s = t.getData(); return s == null ? null : s.trim(); } } return null; } }