Java tutorial
//package com.java2s; /** * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one * or more contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file * distributed with this work for additional information * regarding copyright ownership. The ASF licenses this file * to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the * "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance * with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at * * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 * * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, * software distributed under the License is distributed on an * "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY * KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the * specific language governing permissions and limitations * under the License. */ import org.w3c.dom.Attr; import org.w3c.dom.Node; import org.w3c.dom.ProcessingInstruction; import org.w3c.dom.Text; public class Main { /** * Method getStrFromNode * * @param xpathnode * @return the string for the node. */ public static String getStrFromNode(Node xpathnode) { if (xpathnode.getNodeType() == Node.TEXT_NODE) { // we iterate over all siblings of the context node because eventually, // the text is "polluted" with pi's or comments StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder(); for (Node currentSibling = xpathnode.getParentNode() .getFirstChild(); currentSibling != null; currentSibling = currentSibling.getNextSibling()) { if (currentSibling.getNodeType() == Node.TEXT_NODE) { sb.append(((Text) currentSibling).getData()); } } return sb.toString(); } else if (xpathnode.getNodeType() == Node.ATTRIBUTE_NODE) { return ((Attr) xpathnode).getNodeValue(); } else if (xpathnode.getNodeType() == Node.PROCESSING_INSTRUCTION_NODE) { return ((ProcessingInstruction) xpathnode).getNodeValue(); } return null; } }