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Description

Get string value of XML element.

Demo Code

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//package com.java2s;

import org.w3c.dom.Element;

import org.w3c.dom.Node;

public class Main {
    /** Get string value of an element.
     *  @param element Element/*from w  ww  .j  ava  2s.  com*/
     *  @return String of the node. Empty string if nothing found.
     */
    public static String getString(final Element element) {
        final Node text = element.getFirstChild();
        if (text == null) // <empty /> node
            return "";
        if ((text.getNodeType() == Node.TEXT_NODE || text.getNodeType() == Node.CDATA_SECTION_NODE))
            return text.getNodeValue();
        return "";
    }
}

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