Extra #Text node

Question

Hi,
It seems I got extra #Text node in my DOM object. For example, if my XML is as follows:
<Root>
<FirstElement>Value</FirstElement>
</Root>
My DOM tree will look like:
+ ELEMENT: Root
+ #TEXT:
+ ELEMENT: FirstElement
+ #TEXT: Value
+ #TEXT:
Is there a way to avoid those extra empty #Text Node?

Answer 1

//Create a DocumentBuilderFactory 
DocumentBuilderFactory factory =
            DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance();
//Set the factory object to be validating
factory.setValidating(true);
//Set the factory object to not parse empty text nodes
factory.setIgnoringElementContentWhitespace(true);
//Create a DocumentBuilder and parse XML document
DocumentBuilder builder = factory.newDocumentBuilder();
Document     document = builder.parse(new File("input.xml"));