Re: Retrieving a value from the Soap response ....

[Robert Lowe]

This is an eccentricity of DOM. When you call nodes.item(0), it returns an Element node that represents the <node10> element. To get the textual content of an element, you can't call getNodeValue() directly on the Element node; rather, you have to have to get a TextNode object, which is a child of the Element node, and then call getNodeValue() on that.   - Rob   ----- Original Message ----- From: Denero Watz To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, July 26, 2003 10:53 PM Subject: Retrieving a value from the Soap response .... Hi    I have written a soap client(using apache soap api) and the structure of the response from the server is similar to this: ... ...   <name9>valueOf9<name9>    <name10>valueOf10</name10> ... ...   Now, I am retrieving the value of 'name10' like this: Parameter result = response.getReturnValue(); Element root = (Element) result.getValue(); NodeList nodes = root.getElementsByTagName("name10"); message = nodes.item(0).getNodeValue(); The value of the message is null here. Can someone tell me what is wrong here?   But I got it working by modifying the above by: message = nodes.item(0).getFirstChild().getNodeValue(); This returns 'valueOf10'. But from the above structure you can see that 'valueOf10' is not a node, so why I have to get the first child of 'name10' to retrive this value.   Or am I missing something here??   Thanks, dw     Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software