Java XML CDATA Get getChildCharacterData(Element parentEl)

Description

Concat all the text and cdata node children of this elem and return the resulting text.

License

Apache License

Parameter

Parameter	Description
parentEl	the element whose cdata/text node values are to be combined.

Return

the concatanated string.

Declaration

static public String getChildCharacterData(Element parentEl) 

Method Source Code

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import org.w3c.dom.*;

public class Main {
    /**
     * Concat all the text and cdata node children of this elem and return
     * the resulting text.
     *
     * @param parentEl the element whose cdata/text node values are to
     *                 be combined.
     * @return the concatanated string.
     */
    static public String getChildCharacterData(Element parentEl) {
        if (parentEl == null) {
            return null;
        }
        Node tempNode = parentEl.getFirstChild();
        StringBuffer strBuf = new StringBuffer();
        CharacterData charData;

        while (tempNode != null) {
            switch (tempNode.getNodeType()) {
            case Node.TEXT_NODE:
            case Node.CDATA_SECTION_NODE:
                charData = (CharacterData) tempNode;
                strBuf.append(charData.getData());
                break;
            }
            tempNode = tempNode.getNextSibling();
        }
        return strBuf.toString();
    }
}

Related

1. getCData(Element element)
2. getCDataNode(Element element)
3. getCDataValue(Node node, String tag)
4. getChildCdata(Node element, String name)
5. getChildCharacterData(Element parentEl)
6. getElementCDATAByTagName(Element current, String name, String namespace)