Java Utililty Methods XML Element Get Value

List of utility methods to do XML Element Get Value

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Description

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

Method

StringgetText(Element element)
Concatenates the values of all child nodes of type 'Text' or 'CDATA'/ 
StringBuilder content = new StringBuilder();
if (element != null) {
    NodeList nodes = element.getChildNodes();
    for (int i = 0; i < nodes.getLength(); i++) {
        Node child = nodes.item(i);
        if (isText(child)) {
            content.append(((CharacterData) child).getData());
return (content.length() == 0) ? null : content.toString();
StringgetText(Element element)
Get the text that is associated with this element. 
String text = null;
Node node = element.getFirstChild();
while ((node != null) && (text == null)) {
    if ((node.getNodeType() == Node.TEXT_NODE) || (node.getNodeType() == Node.CDATA_SECTION_NODE)) {
        text = ((CharacterData) node).getData();
    node = node.getNextSibling();
if (text != null)
    text = text.trim();
return text;
StringgetText(Element element)
Gets the text data enclosed by the specified element. 
NodeList nodeList = element.getChildNodes();
StringBuilder buf = new StringBuilder();
int numTextNodes = 0;
for (int i = 0; i < nodeList.getLength(); i++) {
    Node node = nodeList.item(i);
    if (node.getNodeType() == Node.TEXT_NODE) {
        if (!((Text) node).isElementContentWhitespace()) {
            numTextNodes++;
...
StringgetText(Element element)
Get the text for an element, which is considered the first Text child element. 
NodeList nodeList = element.getChildNodes();
if (nodeList.item(0) instanceof Text) {
    return nodeList.item(0).getTextContent();
return null;
StringgetText(Element element)
get Text 
StringBuilder buf = new StringBuilder();
NodeList list = element.getChildNodes();
boolean found = false;
for (int i = 0; i < list.getLength(); i++) {
    Node node = list.item(i);
    if (node.getNodeType() == Node.TEXT_NODE) {
        buf.append(node.getNodeValue());
        found = true;
...
StringgetText(Element element, String name)
Convenience method to get the first String value with a particular tag name in an XML document element. 
NodeList node_list = element.getElementsByTagName(name);
NodeList element_list = ((Element) node_list.item(0)).getChildNodes();
return (element_list.item(0)).getNodeValue();
StringgetText(Element element, String tagName)
get Text 
return element.getElementsByTagName(tagName).item(0).getTextContent();
StringgetText(Element node)
get Text 
StringBuffer sb = new StringBuffer();
NodeList list = node.getChildNodes();
for (int i = 0; i < list.getLength(); i++) {
    Node child = list.item(i);
    switch (child.getNodeType()) {
    case Node.CDATA_SECTION_NODE:
    case Node.TEXT_NODE:
        sb.append(child.getNodeValue());
...
StringgetText(final Element el)
Gets the text information associated with the given DOM element. 
final NodeList nodes = el.getChildNodes();
final int len = nodes.getLength();
for (int i = 0; i < len; i++) {
    final Node node = nodes.item(i);
    if ("#text".equals(node.getNodeName()))
        return node.getNodeValue();
return null;
...
StringgetText(final Element element)
Obtains the text of the specified element. 
final Node node = element.getFirstChild();
if (node != null && node.getNodeType() == Node.TEXT_NODE) {
    return node.getNodeValue().trim();
return null;