Java XML Node to String getText(final Node node)

Description

get Text

License

Open Source License

Declaration

public static String getText(final Node node) 

Method Source Code

//package com.java2s;
// Licensed under the MIT license. See License.txt in the project root.

import org.w3c.dom.Document;
import org.w3c.dom.Node;
import org.w3c.dom.NodeList;
import javax.xml.transform.OutputKeys;
import javax.xml.transform.Transformer;
import javax.xml.transform.TransformerException;
import javax.xml.transform.TransformerFactory;
import javax.xml.transform.dom.DOMSource;
import javax.xml.transform.stream.StreamResult;
import java.io.ByteArrayOutputStream;

public class Main {
    public static String getText(final Node node) {
        final StringBuilder result = new StringBuilder();
        if (!node.hasChildNodes())
            return "";

        final NodeList list = node.getChildNodes();
        for (int i = 0; i < list.getLength(); i++) {
            Node subnode = list.item(i);
            if (subnode.getNodeType() == Node.TEXT_NODE) {
                result.append(subnode.getNodeValue());
            } else if (subnode.getNodeType() == Node.CDATA_SECTION_NODE) {
                result.append(subnode.getNodeValue());
            } else if (subnode.getNodeType() == Node.ENTITY_REFERENCE_NODE) {
                // Recurse into the subtree for text
                // (and ignore comments)
                result.append(getText(subnode));
            }//ww w . j  ava2  s .c  o  m
        }

        return result.toString();
    }

    public static String toString(final Document document) {
        try {
            final ByteArrayOutputStream baos = new ByteArrayOutputStream();

            final TransformerFactory tf = TransformerFactory.newInstance();
            final Transformer transformer = tf.newTransformer();
            transformer.setOutputProperty(OutputKeys.INDENT, "yes");
            transformer.setOutputProperty(OutputKeys.STANDALONE, "yes");
            //http://johnsonsolutions.blogspot.ca/2007/08/xml-transformer-indent-doesnt-work-with.html
            transformer.setOutputProperty("{http://xml.apache.org/xslt}indent-amount", "4");
            transformer.transform(new DOMSource(document), new StreamResult(baos));

            final String result = baos.toString();
            return result;
        } catch (final TransformerException e) {
            throw new Error(e);
        }
    }
}

Related

1. GetOuterXml(Node node)
2. getStringFromDocument(Node doc)
3. getStringFromNode(Node node)
4. getStringFromNode(Node node)
5. getStringFromXML(Node node)
6. getXml(Node node)
7. getXmlAsString(Node node)
8. getXMLString(Node doc)
9. getXmlString(Node n)