Java tutorial
//package com.java2s; /* * XMLUtils.java * * Copyright (c) 1998 - 2006 BusinessTechnology, Ltd. * All rights reserved * * This program is the proprietary and confidential information * of BusinessTechnology, Ltd. and may be used and disclosed only * as authorized in a license agreement authorizing and * controlling such use and disclosure * * Millennium ERP system. * */ import org.w3c.dom.Element; import org.w3c.dom.Node; public class Main { /** * Return the text (node value) of the first node under this, works best if normalized. */ public static String elementValue(Element element) { if (element == null) return null; // make sure we get all the text there... element.normalize(); Node textNode = element.getFirstChild(); if (textNode == null) return null; StringBuffer valueBuffer = new StringBuffer(); do { if (textNode.getNodeType() == Node.CDATA_SECTION_NODE || textNode.getNodeType() == Node.TEXT_NODE) { valueBuffer.append(textNode.getNodeValue()); } } while ((textNode = textNode.getNextSibling()) != null); return valueBuffer.toString(); } }