Java tutorial
//package com.java2s; import org.w3c.dom.Element; import org.w3c.dom.Node; import org.w3c.dom.NodeList; public class Main { /** * get byte value * * @param player * @param name * @return */ public static byte getByteValue(Element e) { return Byte.valueOf(getText(e)); } public static String getText(Element e) { NodeList nl = e.getChildNodes(); int max = nl.getLength(); for (int i = 0; i < max; i++) { Node n = nl.item(i); if (n.getNodeType() == Node.TEXT_NODE) { return n.getNodeValue(); } } return ""; } }