get Text Content from Node and its children - Java XML

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get Text Content from Node and its children

Demo Code

/*//from w  ww . j  a  v  a2  s .c  om
 * Copyright (C) 2010 Teleal GmbH, Switzerland
 *
 * This program 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 3 of
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 *
 * 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 Lesser General Public License for more details.
 *
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 * along with this program.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
 */
//package com.java2s;

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

public class Main {
    public static String getTextContent(Node node) {
        StringBuffer buffer = new StringBuffer();
        NodeList childList = node.getChildNodes();
        for (int i = 0; i < childList.getLength(); i++) {
            Node child = childList.item(i);
            if (child.getNodeType() != Node.TEXT_NODE)
                continue; // skip non-text nodes
            buffer.append(child.getNodeValue());
        }
        return buffer.toString();
    }
}

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