With jdom, www.jdom.org, you can do:
root = doc.getRootElement();
//Either this
List children = root.getChildren();
//or this
List columns = fields.getChildren("column");
...
Is this close enough?
On Sun, May 19, 2002 at 08:48:47PM +0100, Nic Jackson wrote:
> At last sorted it :)
>
> because I was returning an element I needed to again call
> NodeList nList = element.getChildren();
> this gave me a text node and i could then get the value.
>
> what a pain is there no direct way to simply do this.
>
> Code::
>
> DocumentBuilderFactory dbf = DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance();
> DocumentBuilder db = dbf.newDocumentBuilder();
> Document doc = db.parse(inStream);
> // get the root element
> Element eRoot = doc.getDocumentElement();
> NodeList nList = eRoot.getChildNodes();
> NodeList cTitle = nList.item(0).getChildNodes();
> Node eTitle = cTitle.item(0); //TextNode
>
>
> Nic
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>
>
> Further to my previous post I can confirm that the <title> is being returned
> as a node type element which is why im getting null value.
>
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