Java XML Child Get by Name getChildData(Element e, String tag)

Description

get Child Data

License

Open Source License

Declaration

public static String getChildData(Element e, String tag) 

Method Source Code

//package com.java2s;

import org.w3c.dom.Element;
import org.w3c.dom.Node;
import org.w3c.dom.NodeList;

public class Main {
    public static String getChildData(Element e, String tag) {
        NodeList children = e.getElementsByTagName(tag);
        if (children == null || children.getLength() == 0)
            return null;

        return getChildData((Element) children.item(0));
    }//from  ww w .  jav a2s.co  m

    public static String getChildData(Element e) {
        NodeList eChildren = e.getChildNodes();
        if (eChildren == null || eChildren.getLength() == 0)
            return null;

        // OK, now, find the text node and return it's value
        for (int index = 0; index < eChildren.getLength(); index++) {
            Node n = eChildren.item(index);
            if (n.getNodeType() == Node.TEXT_NODE) {
                return n.getNodeValue();
            }
        }
        return null;
    }
}

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