Here you can find the source of getTextContent(Element element)
public static String getTextContent(Element element)
//package com.java2s; /**//from ww w.j a v a2s .com * Copyright 2010 Yuxuan Huang. All rights reserved. * * This program 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 version 3 of the License, or * (at your option) any later version. * * This program 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 program. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>. */ import org.w3c.dom.Element; import org.w3c.dom.Node; import org.w3c.dom.NodeList; import org.w3c.dom.Text; public class Main { public static String getTextContent(Element element) { // Document document = element.getOwnerDocument(); NodeList children = element.getChildNodes(); for (int i = 0, max = children.getLength(); i < max; i++) { Node node = children.item(i); if (node instanceof Text) { Text text = (Text) node; return text.getData(); } } return ""; } }