Java Utililty Methods XML Element Get Value

List of utility methods to do XML Element Get Value

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The list of methods to do XML Element Get Value are organized into topic(s).

Method

ElementgetTagElement(Element node, String key)
get Tag Element 
NodeList childs = node.getChildNodes();
for (int t = 0; t < childs.getLength(); t++) {
    Node attNode = childs.item(t);
    if (attNode.getAttributes() != null) {
        if (attNode.getAttributes().getNamedItem("k").getNodeValue().equals(key)) {
            return (Element) attNode;
return null;
StringgetTagLocalName(final Element element)
get Tag Local Name 
if (element == null) {
    return null;
final String localName = element.getLocalName();
if (localName != null) {
    return localName;
return element.getTagName();
...
StringgetTagNameIgnorePrefix(Element element)
get tag name without any prefix 
if (element == null)
    return null;
String tagName = element.getTagName();
if (tagName.contains(":")) {
    tagName = tagName.split(":")[1];
return tagName;
StringgetTagText(Element ele)
Scans the tag's children and returns the first text element found 
NodeList nl = ele.getChildNodes();
int size = nl.getLength();
Node node = null;
int i = 0;
for (; i < size; i++) {
    node = nl.item(i);
    if (node instanceof Text)
        break;
...
StringgetTagValue(Element e)
Gets the text value from the specified element. 
Node n = (Node) e.getChildNodes().item(0);
if (n == null)
    return null;
return n.getNodeValue();
StringgetTagValue(Element e, String tag)
get Tag Value 
NodeList nlList = e.getElementsByTagName(tag).item(0).getChildNodes();
Node nValue = (Node) nlList.item(0);
return nValue.getNodeValue();
StringgetTagValue(Element element, String tagName)
get Tag Value 
String tagValue = "";
if (element != null) {
    NodeList nodes = element.getElementsByTagName(tagName);
    if (nodes != null && nodes.getLength() == 1) {
        Node node = nodes.item(0);
        tagValue = node.getTextContent();
return tagValue;
StringgetTagValue(Element element, String tagName)
Retrieve the value of an XML tag. 
try {
    NodeList tagList = element.getElementsByTagName(tagName);
    Element tagElement = (Element) tagList.item(0);
    NodeList textTagList = tagElement.getChildNodes();
    return (textTagList.item(0)).getNodeValue().trim();
} catch (Exception e) {
    throw new Exception(
            "Error in parsing the element \"" + element.toString() + "\" with the tag \"" + tagName + "\"");
...
StringgetText(Element aElement)
Returns a concatenation of all of the text nodes and CDATA nodes that are immediate children of this element. 
if (aElement == null)
    return null;
StringBuilder buffer = new StringBuilder();
NodeList nl = aElement.getChildNodes();
for (int i = 0; nl.item(i) != null; i++) {
    Node child = nl.item(i);
    switch (child.getNodeType()) {
    case Node.CDATA_SECTION_NODE:
...
StringgetText(Element config)
returns the first text child within the node. 
if (config == null) {
    throw new IllegalArgumentException("config cannot be null");
NodeList children = config.getChildNodes();
for (int i = 0; i < children.getLength(); i++) {
    if (children.item(i) instanceof Text) {
        return children.item(i).getNodeValue();
return null;