Re: Bugs?

Edas,

#getNodeValue will not return you the contents of an element.

You will need to get the children of the element, and concatenate all
the Text and CDATASection nodes, so something like:

NodeList nl = node.getChildNodes();
// handle only the first child
StringBuffer value = new StringBuffer();
if (nl.getLength() > 0) {
   nl = nl.item(0).getChildNodes();
   for (int i = 0; i < nl.getLength(); i++) {
      Node temp = nl.item(i);
      if ((temp.getNodeType() == Node.TEXT) || 
         (temp.getNodeType() == Node.CDATA_SECTION_NODE)) {
         value.append( ((Text)temp).getData() );
      }
   }
}

--Keith

Edas Pazera wrote:
> 
> OK, someone tell me I am not crazy yet... :-)
> 
> I have tried all ways I could think of, but I still can't get a simple
> function return the value of a child node.
> 
> It is my assumption--confirmed by OpenXML API documentation--that the
> following line--
> 
> node.getChildNodes().item(0).getNodeValue()
> 
> would return "A" as defined in the XML code below--
> 
> <parent>
>         <child1>A</child1>
>             ...
>         <childN>Z</childN>
> </parent>
> 
> All I get is empty string!!!  I have no problem getting the name of the tag,
> but not the value?!  What am I missing here?
> 
> On the side note, I have to admit that while slowly and painfully weeding my
> way through servlets/xml/xsl, I am getting somewhere and am liking it a lot!
> Great effort from respective developers...
> 
> - Edas
> 
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