Java Utililty Methods XML Element Get Value

List of utility methods to do XML Element Get Value

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

Method

StringgetTextValue(Element ele, String tagName)
get Text Value 
String textVal = null;
NodeList nl = ele.getElementsByTagName(tagName);
if (nl != null && nl.getLength() > 0) {
    Element el = (Element) nl.item(0);
    textVal = el.getFirstChild().getNodeValue();
return textVal;
StringgetTextValue(Element ele, String tagName)
Helper function for quickly retrieving a String value of a given XML element. 
String textVal = null;
NodeList nl = ele.getElementsByTagName(tagName);
if (nl != null && nl.getLength() > 0) {
    Element el = (Element) nl.item(0);
    if (el.getFirstChild() != null) {
        textVal = el.getFirstChild().getNodeValue();
    } else {
        textVal = "";
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StringgetTextValue(Element ele, String tagName)
I take a xml element and the tag name, look for the tag and get the text content i.e for John xml snippet if the Element points to employee node and tagName is 'name' I will return John 
String textVal = null;
NodeList nl = ele.getElementsByTagName(tagName);
if (nl != null && nl.getLength() > 0) {
    Element el = (Element) nl.item(0);
    textVal = el.getFirstChild().getNodeValue();
return textVal;
StringgetTextValue(Element ele, String tagName)
I take a xml element and the tag name, look for the tag and get the text content i.e for John xml snippet if the Element points to employee node and tagName is 'name' I will return John 
NodeList nl = ele.getElementsByTagName(tagName);
if (nl != null && nl.getLength() > 0) {
    Element el = (Element) nl.item(0);
    return el.getFirstChild().getNodeValue();
return ele.getAttribute(tagName);
StringgetTextValue(Element element)
Returns the text value of an element (title, alt or contents). 
String ret = "";
String textContent = element.getTextContent();
if (textContent != null && !textContent.equals("")) {
    ret = textContent;
} else if (element.hasAttribute("title")) {
    ret = element.getAttribute("title");
} else if (element.hasAttribute("alt")) {
    ret = element.getAttribute("alt");
...
StringgetTextValue(Element element)
Get the value of the first text child of an element. 
NodeList childs = element.getChildNodes();
for (int i = 0; i < childs.getLength(); i++) {
    Node node = childs.item(i);
    if (Node.TEXT_NODE == node.getNodeType()) {
        return node.getNodeValue();
return null;
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StringgetTextValue(Element element, String name)
get Text Value 
Element namedElement = getElementByTagName(element, name);
return getElementText(namedElement);
StringgetTextValue(Element element, String tagName)
Get the Text value 
return element.getElementsByTagName(tagName).item(0).getChildNodes().item(0).getNodeValue().trim();
StringgetTextValue(Element element, String tagName)
Return the text value for the first element that is a child of 'element' with the name 'tagName'. 
String textVal = null;
Element el = getFirstChildElement(element, tagName);
if (el != null) {
    Node firstChild = el.getFirstChild();
    if (firstChild != null) {
        textVal = firstChild.getNodeValue();
return textVal;
StringgetTextValue(Element node)
Gets the text value contained in an element. 
if (node == null) {
    return null;
NodeList nodes = node.getChildNodes();
for (int i = 0; i < nodes.getLength(); i++) {
    Node n = nodes.item(i);
    if (n.getNodeType() == n.TEXT_NODE) {
        return n.getNodeValue();
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