Java Utililty Methods XML Child Element Text

List of utility methods to do XML Child Element Text

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Description

The list of methods to do XML Child Element Text are organized into topic(s).

Method

StringgetChildText(Element tag, String childTagName)
get Child Text 
Element child = getFirstChild(tag, childTagName);
if (child != null) {
    return getNodeText(child);
return "";
StringgetChildText(final Element element, final String tagName)
get Child Text 
final Element childElement = getChild(element, tagName);
if (childElement == null) {
    return null;
final String text = childElement.getTextContent();
return (text == null) ? null : text.trim();
StringgetChildText(final Element element, final String tagName)
Obtains the text value inside the first child element with the specified tag name. 
final Element child = getChildElement(element, tagName);
return getText(child);
StringgetChildText(final Element parentElem, final String childName)
Gets the text content of a child element. 
NodeList childList = parentElem.getElementsByTagName(childName);
if (childList.getLength() > 0) {
    Node child = childList.item(0);
    return child.getTextContent();
} else {
    return null;
StringgetChildText(final Node node)
Returns the concatenated child text of the specified node. 
if (node == null) {
    return null;
StringBuffer str = new StringBuffer();
Node child = node.getFirstChild();
while (child != null) {
    short type = child.getNodeType();
    if (type == Node.TEXT_NODE) {
...
StringgetChildText(final Node node)
get Child Text 
if (node == null) {
    return null;
} else {
    final StringBuilder text = new StringBuilder();
    appendChildText(text, node);
    return text.toString();
StringgetChildText(Node node)
Returns the value of the first child node of the given node, and asserts that the child node is a Text node. 
Node child = node.getFirstChild();
assert (child.getNodeType() == Node.TEXT_NODE);
return child.getNodeValue();
StringgetChildText(Node node)
We get a object that connected text node of the child node and the CDATA section as character string. 
StringBuffer buf = new StringBuffer();
for (int i = 0; i < node.getChildNodes().getLength(); i++) {
    Node n = node.getChildNodes().item(i);
    if (n.getNodeType() == Node.TEXT_NODE || n.getNodeType() == Node.CDATA_SECTION_NODE) {
        buf.append(n.getNodeValue());
return buf.toString();
...
StringgetChildText(Node node)
Returns the concatenated child text of the specified node. 
if (node == null) {
    return null;
StringBuffer str = new StringBuffer();
Node child = node.getFirstChild();
while (child != null) {
    short type = child.getNodeType();
    if (type == Node.TEXT_NODE) {
...
StringgetChildText(Node parent, String childName)
Returns the text value of a given child element. 
Element elem = findFirstChild(parent, childName);
if (elem == null)
    return null; 
return getElementText(elem);