XML DOM Parsing getAttributes() in J2SE 5.0 vs. J2SE 1.4

Question

I am experiencing the following problem, with the Node.getAttributes() function although the following code runs fine under Java 1.4, and getAttributes() returns the actual string attribute values:
            File xmlFile = new File(fileName);
            DocumentBuilderFactory factory = DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance();
            DocumentBuilder builder = factory.newDocumentBuilder();
            Document doc = builder.parse(xmlFile);
            // Begin analyzing XML
            Element root = doc.getDocumentElement();
            // Enumerate all children
            NodeList children = root.getChildNodes();
                Node rootNode = null;
                NodeList nodeList = children;
                for (int R = 0; R < nodeList.getLength() ; R++)
                    if (nodeList.item(R).getNodeType() == Node.ELEMENT_NODE)
                        rootNode = nodeList.item(R);
                        System.out.println("> " + rootNode.getNodeName() + " - " + rootNode.getAttributes().toString());
             In J2SE 5.0 the Node.getAttributes() returns the following:
[email protected]d of returning then the actual attribute string (like in Java 1.4)!
If it helps at all I am using DOM parser (as noticed above, org.w3c.dom)
My assumption is that J2SE 5.0 returns an attribute map that is encoded differently then Java 1.4
Thank you for your time & appreciate any help...

Answer 1

The getAttributes method returns a NamedNodeMap.
Iterate over the NamedNodeMap to get attribute values.
Instead of rootNode.getAttributes().toString();
NamedNodeMap map=rootNode.getAttributes().toString();
for(int i=0; i<map.getLength(); i++){
Node node=map.item(i);
if(node.getNodeType()==Node.ATTRIBUTE_NODE)
System.out.println("Attribute Node "+node.getNodeName()+ "has value "+ node.getNodeValue());
}