Java XML Element Get Value getText(Element element)

Description

Concatenates the values of all child nodes of type 'Text' or 'CDATA'/

License

Apache License

Parameter

Parameter	Description
element	a parameter

Return

String representing the value of all Text and CDATA child nodes or null if the length of the resulting String is 0.

Declaration

public static String getText(Element element)

Method Source Code

//package com.java2s;
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import org.w3c.dom.CharacterData;
import org.w3c.dom.Element;
import org.w3c.dom.Node;
import org.w3c.dom.NodeList;

public class Main {
    /**
     * Concatenates the values of all child nodes of type 'Text' or 'CDATA'/
     *
     * @param element
     * @return String representing the value of all Text and CDATA child nodes or
     * <code>null</code> if the length of the resulting String is 0.
     * @see #isText(org.w3c.dom.Node)
     */
    public static String getText(Element element) {
        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)) {
                    // cast to super class that contains Text and CData
                    content.append(((CharacterData) child).getData());
                }
            }
        }
        return (content.length() == 0) ? null : content.toString();
    }

    /**
     * Same as {@link #getText(Element)} except that 'defaultValue' is returned
     * instead of <code>null</code>, if the element does not contain any text.
     *
     * @param element
     * @param defaultValue
     * @return the text contained in the specified element or
     * <code>defaultValue</code> if the element does not contain any text.
     */
    public static String getText(Element element, String defaultValue) {
        String txt = getText(element);
        return (txt == null) ? defaultValue : txt;
    }

    /**
     * @param node
     * @return true if the given node is of type text or CDATA.
     */
    public static boolean isText(Node node) {
        int ntype = node.getNodeType();
        return ntype == Node.TEXT_NODE || ntype == Node.CDATA_SECTION_NODE;
    }
}