Here you can find the source of getTextValue(Element ele, String tagName)
public static String getTextValue(Element ele, String tagName)
//package com.java2s; /**************************************************** Statistics Online Computational Resource (SOCR) http://www.StatisticsResource.org//from w w w. j a v a 2s . com All SOCR programs, materials, tools and resources are developed by and freely disseminated to the entire community. Users may revise, extend, redistribute, modify under the terms of the Lesser GNU General Public License as published by the Open Source Initiative http://opensource.org/licenses/. All efforts should be made to develop and distribute factually correct, useful, portable and extensible resource all available in all digital formats for free over the Internet. SOCR resources are distributed in the hope that they will be useful, but without any warranty; without any explicit, implicit or implied warranty for merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose. See the GNU Lesser General Public License for more details see http://opensource.org/licenses/lgpl-license.php. http://www.SOCR.ucla.edu http://wiki.stat.ucla.edu/socr It s Online, Therefore, It Exists! ****************************************************/ import org.w3c.dom.Element; import org.w3c.dom.NodeList; public class Main { public static String getTextValue(Element ele, String tagName) { String textVal = null; NodeList nl = ele.getElementsByTagName(tagName); if (nl != null && nl.getLength() > 0) { Element el = (Element) nl.item(0); textVal = el.getFirstChild().getNodeValue(); } return textVal; } }