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Extract all text children of an element
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/*
* Beryl - A web platform based on XML, XSLT and Java
* This file is part of the Beryl XML GUI
*
* Copyright (C) 2004 Wenzel Jakob <wazlaf@tigris.org>
*
* This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
* modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public
* License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either
* version 2.1 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
* This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
* but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
* MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU
* Lesser General Public License for more details.
*
* You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public
* License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
* Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-3107 USA
*/
import java.io.StringWriter;
import org.w3c.dom.Document;
import org.w3c.dom.Element;
import org.w3c.dom.Node;
import org.w3c.dom.NodeList;
/**
* Miscellaneous XML utility functions
*/
public class XMLUtils {
/**
* Extract all text children of an element
*/
public static String extractTextChildren(Element parentNode) {
NodeList childNodes = parentNode.getChildNodes();
String result = new String();
for (int i = 0; i < childNodes.getLength(); i++) {
Node node = childNodes.item(i);
if (node.getNodeType() == Node.TEXT_NODE) {
result += node.getNodeValue();
}
}
return result;
}
}
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