Java XML Element Children getSubNodeText(Element modsroot, String nodename, String subnodename)

Description

Retrieves name/subname text value.

License

Open Source License

Declaration

public static String getSubNodeText(Element modsroot, String nodename, String subnodename) 

Method Source Code

//package com.java2s;
/**//w  w  w .j  a v a2 s . c  o  m
 * Jafer Poject.
 * Copyright (C) 2005, Jafer Project, Oxford University.
 *
 * This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
 * modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public
 * License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either
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 *
 * This library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
 * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
 * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU
 * Lesser General Public License for more details.
 *
 * You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public
 * License along with this library; if not, write to the Free Software
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 *
 */

import org.w3c.dom.Element;

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

public class Main {
    /**
     * Retrieves name/subname text value.
     */
    public static String getSubNodeText(Element modsroot, String nodename, String subnodename) {
        StringBuffer sb = new StringBuffer("");
        NodeList list = modsroot.getElementsByTagName(nodename);
        if (list.getLength() > 0) {
            Element node = (Element) list.item(0);
            NodeList l = node.getElementsByTagName(subnodename);
            if (l.getLength() > 0)
                sb.append(getTextValue(l.item(0)));
        }
        return sb.toString();
    }

    /**
     * Get the text node from an element node.
     */
    public static String getTextValue(Node node) {
        StringBuffer sb = new StringBuffer("");
        NodeList list = node.getChildNodes();
        for (int i = 0; i < list.getLength(); i++) {
            if (list.item(i).getNodeType() == Node.TEXT_NODE) {
                sb.append(list.item(i).getNodeValue());
            }
        }
        //System.out.println("returning:"+sb.toString());
        return sb.toString();
    }
}

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4. getSubelementStrings(final Element element, final String name)
5. getSubelementText(Element element, String subelementName)
6. getSubNodeValue(Element element, String name)