I can't get the correct node (a real beginner)

Question

I have an XML file which looks like this:
[code<lawyer>
     <Country>Singapore</Country>
     <Company>Allen & Gledhill</Company>
</lawyer>
<lawyer>
     <Country>Singapore</Country>
     <Company>Allen & Gledhill</Company>
</lawyer>.
</Lawyers>
But I can't get the right node names and values.
Here is my code:
File file = new File("lawyers.xml");
DocumentBuilder builder = DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance().newDocumentBuilder();
Document doc = builder.parse(file);
NodeList nlLawyers = doc.getElementsByTagName("lawyer");
for (int i = 0; i < nlLawyers.getLength(); i++) {
     Element elLawyer = (Element) nlLawyers.item(i);
     NodeList columns = elLawyer.getChildNodes();
     for (int j=0; j<columns.getLength(); j++) {
          Node col = columns.item(j);
          String colName = col.getNodeName();
          String colVal = col.getNodeValue();
          System.out.println(colName + ": " + colVal);
}What I would like to print out would be something like this:
Country: Singapore
Company: Allen & GledhillBut I am getting extra nodes and cannot get the text values. Here is the output I am getting:
#text:
Country: null
#text:
Company: nullI don't understand this output at all. Please help me get the list of node names and values?
Thank you.
-Jeff

Answer 1

It seems that the #text nodes represent the whitespace between the formal nodes. Also, the nodes that I want to extract have a NodeTypeValue of 1. Once I had determined that I had the correct node, I had to get its child node to get the text. Here is the final code:
File file = new File("lawyers.xml");
DocumentBuilder builder = DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance().newDocumentBuilder();
Document doc = builder.parse(file);
NodeList nlLawyers = doc.getElementsByTagName("lawyer");
for (int i = 0; i < nlLawyers.getLength(); i++) {
     lawyer = new Lawyer();
     Element elLawyer = (Element) nlLawyers.item(i);
     NodeList columns = elLawyer.getChildNodes();
     for (int j=0; j<columns.getLength(); j++) {
          Node col = columns.item(j);
          if (col.getNodeType() == 1) {
               String strColumn = col.getNodeName();
               Node txt = col.getFirstChild();
               String strValue = txt.getNodeValue();
               System.out.println(strColumn + ":\t" + strValue);                         }
     } // for each column
} // for each lawyer