Java Utililty Methods XML Element Text

String getContent(Element e)
Return the content of the given element.

String content = null;
if (e != null) {
 Text t = findText(e, false);
 if (t != null) {
 StringBuilder b = new StringBuilder();
 while (t != null) {
 b.append(t.getData());
 Node n = t.getNextSibling();
...

String getContent(Element element)
This method will return the content of this particular element.

StringBuffer paramValue = new StringBuffer();
NodeList childNodes = element.getChildNodes();
for (int j = 0; j < childNodes.getLength(); j++) {
 Node currentNode = childNodes.item(j);
 if (currentNode != null && currentNode.getNodeType() == Node.TEXT_NODE) {
 String val = currentNode.getNodeValue();
 if (val != null) {
 paramValue.append(val.trim());
...

Object getContent(Element element)
get Content

NodeList nl = element.getChildNodes();
StringBuilder content = new StringBuilder();
for (int i = 0; i < nl.getLength(); i++) {
 Node node = nl.item(i);
 switch (node.getNodeType()) {
 case Node.ELEMENT_NODE:
 return node;
 case Node.CDATA_SECTION_NODE:
...

String getContent(Element element)

This method will return the content of this particular element.

StringBuilder paramValue = new StringBuilder();
NodeList childNodes = element.getChildNodes();
for (int j = 0; j < childNodes.getLength(); j++) {
 Node currentNode = childNodes.item(j);
 if (currentNode != null && currentNode.getNodeType() == Node.TEXT_NODE) {
 String val = currentNode.getNodeValue();
 if (val != null) {
 paramValue.append(val.trim());
...

String getContentFromElement(Element element, String namespaceURI, String localName)
Get text content from element by namespace.

String elementContent = null;
NodeList nodes = element.getElementsByTagNameNS(namespaceURI, localName);
for (int i = 0; i < nodes.getLength(); i++) {
 elementContent = nodes.item(i).getTextContent();
return elementContent;

String getContentText(Element element)
get Content Text

return element.getTextContent();

String getContentText(Element elementNode)
get Content Text

StringBuffer result = new StringBuffer();
NodeList children = elementNode.getChildNodes();
for (int c = 0; c < children.getLength(); c++) {
 Node child = children.item(c);
 if ((child.getNodeType() == Node.TEXT_NODE) && (child instanceof Text)) {
 String name = ((Text) child).getData();
 result.append(name);
return result.toString();

String getElementText(Element elem)
get Element Text

StringBuffer buf = new StringBuffer();
NodeList nodeList = elem.getChildNodes();
for (int i = 0, len = nodeList.getLength(); i < len; i++) {
 Node n = nodeList.item(i);
 if (n.getNodeType() == Node.TEXT_NODE) {
 buf.append(n.getNodeValue());
 } else {
return buf.toString();

String getElementText(Element elem)
Get the concatenated value of all Text nodes that are immediate children of the given Element.

StringBuilder result = new StringBuilder();
NodeList nodeList = elem.getChildNodes();
for (int index = 0; index < nodeList.getLength(); index++) {
 Node childNode = nodeList.item(index);
 if (childNode != null && (childNode instanceof Text)) {
 result.append(" ");
 result.append(((Text) childNode).getData());
return result.toString().trim();

String getElementText(Element elem, boolean mandatory)
getChildText purpose.

String value = null;
if (LOGGER.isLoggable(Level.FINER)) {
 LOGGER.finer(new StringBuffer("getting element text for ").append(elem).toString());
if (elem != null) {
 Node child;
 NodeList childs = elem.getChildNodes();
 int nChilds = childs.getLength();
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