Java tutorial
//package com.java2s; import org.w3c.dom.Element; import org.w3c.dom.NodeList; public class Main { /** * Helper function for quickly retrieving a String value of a given * XML element. * @param ele The document element from which to pull the String value. * @param tagName The name of the node. * @return The String value of the given node in the element passed in. */ public static String getTextValue(Element ele, String tagName) { String textVal = null; NodeList nl = ele.getElementsByTagName(tagName); if (nl != null && nl.getLength() > 0) { Element el = (Element) nl.item(0); if (el.getFirstChild() != null) { textVal = el.getFirstChild().getNodeValue(); } else { textVal = ""; } } return decode(textVal); } /** * Helper function for decode XML entities. * @param str The XML-encoded String to decode. * @return An XML-decoded String. */ public static String decode(String str) { if (str == null) { return null; } str = str.replaceAll(">", ">"); str = str.replaceAll("<", "<"); str = str.replaceAll(""", "\""); str = str.replaceAll("&", "&"); return str; } }