HELP: How to get only the text of an element Node

Question

Hello
I am using XPath for the following XML document:
<Start>
<User>
<LoginName>abc</LoginName>
<Password>qqq</Password>
</User>
<User>
<LoginName>xyz</LoginName>
<Password>ttt</Password>
</User>
</Start>
Now I want to get the password for the LoginName = 'xyz'.
The XPath I have written is:
//User[LoginName='xyz']/Password[text()]"
The result I get is:
<Password>ttt</Password>
But what I want is ONLY the password TEXT i.e the value of the password and NOT the complete node information. What Should I do with the Xpath string so that the result only gives: ttt
Please help me with this as this has hold me now for quite a long time.
Thanx.
Arshad

Answer 1

Use this method to get the text in Java
public String getTextContents ( Node node )
NodeList childNodes;
StringBuffer contents = new StringBuffer();
childNodes = node.getChildNodes();
for(int i=0; i < childNodes.getLength(); i++ )
if( childNodes.item(i).getNodeType() == Node.TEXT_NODE )
     contents.append(childNodes.item(i).getNodeValue());
return contents.toString();
}