Java XML Element Get Value getText(Element aElement)

Description

Returns a concatenation of all of the text nodes and CDATA nodes that are immediate children of this element.

License

Open Source License

Parameter

Parameter	Description
aElement	a parameter

Declaration

public static String getText(Element aElement) 

Method Source Code

//package com.java2s;
import org.w3c.dom.*;

public class Main {
    /**/* ww w.  j  a  v  a  2s .  co m*/
     * Returns a concatenation of all of the text nodes and CDATA nodes that are
     * immediate children of this element.
     *
     * @param aElement
     */
    public static String getText(Element aElement) {
        // short return if no element has been passed
        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:
            case Node.TEXT_NODE:
                buffer.append(child.getNodeValue());
            }
        }

        return buffer.toString();
    }
}

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