Java tutorial
//package com.java2s; import org.w3c.dom.Element; import org.w3c.dom.Node; import org.w3c.dom.NodeList; public class Main { /** * Trivial convenience method to extract the value of a (text) Element, coping with the * possibility that text child Nodes may not have been coalesced. * * @param textElement */ public static String extractTextElementValue(final Element textElement) { NodeList childNodes = textElement.getChildNodes(); String result; if (childNodes.getLength() == 1) { /* Text Nodes have been coalesced */ result = ensureExtractTextNodeValue(childNodes.item(0)); } else { /* Need to coalesce manually */ StringBuilder resultBuilder = new StringBuilder(); for (int i = 0; i < childNodes.getLength(); i++) { resultBuilder.append(ensureExtractTextNodeValue(childNodes.item(i))); } result = resultBuilder.toString(); } return result; } private static String ensureExtractTextNodeValue(final Node node) { if (node.getNodeType() == Node.TEXT_NODE) { return node.getNodeValue(); } throw new IllegalArgumentException("Node is not a text Node"); } }