Java XML Element Root getElementValue(Element root, String name)

Description

get Element Value

License

Open Source License

Declaration

public static String getElementValue(Element root, String name)
            throws Exception 

Method Source Code

//package com.java2s;
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import javax.xml.parsers.*;
import org.w3c.dom.DOMImplementation;

import org.w3c.dom.Element;
import org.w3c.dom.ls.DOMImplementationLS;

public class Main {
    public static boolean DEBUG = false;

    public static String getElementValue(Element root, String name)
            throws Exception {
        try {
            return root.getElementsByTagName(name).item(0).getTextContent();
        } catch (Exception e) {
            if (DEBUG) {
                System.out.println("element: " + name);
                System.out.println(printXML(root));
            }

            throw e;
        }
    }

    public static String printXML(Element root) throws Exception {
        DocumentBuilder builder = DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance()
                .newDocumentBuilder();
        DOMImplementation impl = builder.getDOMImplementation();
        DOMImplementationLS ls = (DOMImplementationLS) impl.getFeature(
                "LS", "3.0");
        return ls.createLSSerializer().writeToString(root);
    }
}

Related

1. createRootElement(Document doc, String rootTagName)
2. getElement(String elementName, Node rootNode)
3. getElementData(final Element root, final String elementName)
4. getElementData(final Element root, final String elementName)
5. getElementText(String elemName, Element root, boolean trim)
6. getElementValueLong(Element root, String name)
7. getRoot(Document doc)
8. getRoot(Document doc)
9. getRoot(Document document)