Returns the text content of the XML element. - Java XML

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Returns the text content of the XML element.

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//package com.java2s;

import org.w3c.dom.CharacterData;
import org.w3c.dom.Element;

import org.w3c.dom.Node;
import org.w3c.dom.Text;

public class Main {
    /**
     * Returns the text content of the element. Concatenates all text nodes into
     * a single string.
     * 
     * @param element the element which content is to be returned
     * @return the text content of the element or empty string if the element
     *         has no text content
     */
    public static String getElementText(Element element) {

        StringBuilder builder = new StringBuilder(10);
        for (Node n = element.getFirstChild(); n != null; n = n
                .getNextSibling()) {
            if (n instanceof Text) {
                builder.append(((CharacterData) n).getData());
            }
        }
        return builder.toString();
    }
}

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