Re: Get Data and Value of XML element in Java
In article <1161268881.529214.285930@m73g2000cwd.googlegroups.com>,
vunet.us@gmail.com wrote:
I am new to Java. I need to rewrite a function which gets XML elements
text as shown below to get elements value instead:
private String getCharacterDataFromElement(Element e){
Node child = e.getFirstChild();
if(child instanceof CharacterData){
CharacterData cd = (Character) child;
return cd.getData();
}
return "?";
}
<xml>FUNCTION ABOVE GETS THIS<xml>
<xml value="NEED TO GET THIS VALUE"></xml>
THANKS TO ALL.
You should become familiar with the API Javadocs, as you'll find a great
part of what you want to know in there. For this question, start with
<http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/docs/api/org/w3c/dom/Node.html>.
Assuming that the parameter "e" is the element in your (incorrect)
examples named "xml", you can get the value of the attribute named
"value" using:
String value = e.getAttribute("value");
If the attribute doesn't exist or is an empty string, you'll get an
empty string in return.
To get the value of the text node, you could try this:
if (e.getFirstChild().getNodeType() == Node.TEXT_NODE) {
String nodevalue = e.getFirstChild().getNodeValue();
}
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