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public static String getElementText(Element element)
//package com.java2s; /******************************************************************************* * Copyright 2011 Google Inc. All Rights Reserved. * * All rights reserved. This program and the accompanying materials * are made available under the terms of the Eclipse Public License v1.0 * which accompanies this distribution, and is available at * http://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-v10.html * * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and * limitations under the License./*from www . j a v a2 s .c o m*/ *******************************************************************************/ 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 getElementText(Element element) { NodeList children = element.getChildNodes(); for (int i = 0; i < children.getLength(); i++) { Node child = children.item(i); if (child.getNodeType() == Node.TEXT_NODE) { return ((Text) child).getNodeValue(); } } return ""; } }