Java tutorial
//package com.java2s; /* * Copyright 2002-2006,2009 The Apache Software Foundation. * * Licensed 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.Element; import org.w3c.dom.Node; import org.w3c.dom.NodeList; public class Main { /** * This method will return the content of this particular <code>element</code>. * For example, * <p/> * <pre> * <result>something_1</result> * </pre> * When the {@link org.w3c.dom.Element} <code><result></code> is passed in as * argument (<code>element</code> to this method, it returns the content of it, * namely, <code>something_1</code> in the example above. * * @return */ public static String getContent(Element element) { StringBuilder paramValue = new StringBuilder(); NodeList childNodes = element.getChildNodes(); for (int j = 0; j < childNodes.getLength(); j++) { Node currentNode = childNodes.item(j); if (currentNode != null && currentNode.getNodeType() == Node.TEXT_NODE) { String val = currentNode.getNodeValue(); if (val != null) { paramValue.append(val.trim()); } } } return paramValue.toString().trim(); } }