Java XML NodeList getTextFields(NodeList list)

Description

Extracts all text values from a list of Element nodes.

License

Open Source License

Declaration

public static String getTextFields(NodeList list) 

Method Source Code

//package com.java2s;
/**/*from ww w .  j  av a2 s  . c  o  m*/
 * Jafer Poject.
 * Copyright (C) 2005, Jafer Project, Oxford University.
 *
 * This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
 * modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public
 * License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either
 * version 2.1 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
 *
 * This library 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
 * Lesser General Public License for more details.
 *
 * You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public
 * License along with this library; if not, write to the Free Software
 * Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA
 *
 */

import org.w3c.dom.Node;
import org.w3c.dom.NodeList;

public class Main {
    /**
     * Extracts all text values from a list of Element nodes. Appends them with
     * '\n' preceding
     */
    public static String getTextFields(NodeList list) {
        StringBuffer sb = new StringBuffer("");
        for (int i = 0; i < list.getLength(); i++) {
            Node node = (Node) list.item(i);
            if (i > 0)
                sb.append("\n");
            sb.append(getTextValue(node));
        }
        return sb.toString();
    }

    /**
     * Get the text node from an element node.
     */
    public static String getTextValue(Node node) {
        StringBuffer sb = new StringBuffer("");
        NodeList list = node.getChildNodes();
        for (int i = 0; i < list.getLength(); i++) {
            if (list.item(i).getNodeType() == Node.TEXT_NODE) {
                sb.append(list.item(i).getNodeValue());
            }
        }
        //System.out.println("returning:"+sb.toString());
        return sb.toString();
    }
}

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3. getTableIDOfTableAlias(String tableAlias, NodeList referList1, NodeList referList2)
4. getText(NodeList elem)
5. getTextContent(NodeList nodeList)
6. getXmlNodeValue(NodeList nodeList)
7. hasElementNodes(NodeList list)
8. hasImageNodes(NodeList nodeList)
9. indexOf(NodeList nodeList, String tagName, int startIdx)