Parsing XML with Dom

From:

"nuthinking@googlemail.com" <nuthinking@googlemail.com>

Newsgroups:

comp.lang.java.programmer

Date:

Thu, 27 Sep 2007 23:03:01 -0000

Message-ID:

<1190934181.782995.226090@50g2000hsm.googlegroups.com>

I can't believe I'm stuck on this, but
DocumentBuilderFactory.setIgnoringElementContentWhitespace doesn't
seem to work at all, I still get the new lines as text elements :S

Any idea?

Here the small code I used:

protected static void parseDom(File file)
    {
        // TODO Auto-generated method stub
        DocumentBuilderFactory factory =
DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance();
        factory.setIgnoringComments(true);
        factory.setIgnoringElementContentWhitespace(true);

        DocumentBuilder parser;
        try {
            parser = factory.newDocumentBuilder();
            Document document = parser.parse(file);
            NodeList list = document.getChildNodes();
            int len = list.getLength();
            System.out.println("#parseDom: len:" + len);
            for (int i = 0; i < len; i++) {
                Node element = list.item(i);
                parseNode(element);
            }
        } catch (ParserConfigurationException e) {
            // TODO Auto-generated catch block
            e.printStackTrace();
        } catch (SAXException e) {
            // TODO Auto-generated catch block
            e.printStackTrace();
        } catch (IOException e) {
            // TODO Auto-generated catch block
            e.printStackTrace();
        }

    }

    private static void parseNode(Node node)
    {
        System.out.println("#parseNode:" + node.getNodeName() + " = " +
node.getNodeValue() + " type:" + node.getNodeType());
        NamedNodeMap attributes = node.getAttributes();
        if(attributes != null){
            int len = attributes.getLength();
            for (int i = 0; i < len; i++) {
                Node attr = attributes.item(i);
                parseAttribute(attr);
            }
        }
        if(!node.hasChildNodes()) return;

        NodeList list = node.getChildNodes();
        int len = list.getLength();
        System.out.println("-- num children: " + len);
        for(int i= 0; i<len; i++) {
            Node child = list.item(i);
            parseNode(child);
        }
        System.out.println("------");
    }

    private static void parseAttribute(Node node)
    {
        // TODO Auto-generated method stub
        System.out.println("#parseAttribute:" + node.getNodeName() + " = " +
node.getNodeValue());
    }

Thanks,

chr