Here you can find the source of getText(final Element el)
public static String getText(final Element el)
//package com.java2s; /*// www. ja v a 2s. co m * #%L * VisBio application for visualization of multidimensional biological * image data. * %% * Copyright (C) 2002 - 2014 Board of Regents of the University of * Wisconsin-Madison. * %% * This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify * it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as * published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 2 of the * License, or (at your option) any later version. * * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the * GNU General Public License for more details. * * You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public * License along with this program. If not, see * <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html>. * #L% */ import org.w3c.dom.Element; import org.w3c.dom.Node; import org.w3c.dom.NodeList; public class Main { /** Gets the text information associated with the given DOM element. */ public static String getText(final Element el) { final NodeList nodes = el.getChildNodes(); final int len = nodes.getLength(); for (int i = 0; i < len; i++) { final Node node = nodes.item(i); if ("#text".equals(node.getNodeName())) return node.getNodeValue(); } return null; } }