I need to get the tagName of a node of the first child of the Root

Question

Hi All,
I need to get the TagName of the Node immediete after the Root. I won't know what is the TagName, and based on the Tagname only I can process the records.
For example I might receive a SALES object or a MARKETING object wrapped under the root.
eg.
<PARENT>
<SALES>
</SALES>
</PARENT>
or
<PARENT>
<MARKETING>
</MARKETING>
</PARENT>
I tried to using like this
DocumentBuilder documentBuilder = documentBuilderFactory.newDocumentBuilder();
File file = new File("c:/example.xml");
document = documentBuilder.parse(file);
Node node = document.getDocumentElement().getFirstChild();
System.out.println("node Name:" +node.getNodeName());
System.out.println("node Value:" +node.getNodeValue());
It returns only something like #text, but I need the response like 'SALES'.
Can anyone let me know if im missing something somewhere.
thanks in advance,
Harish

Answer 1

Hi Blaise,
thanks for your reply.
but still i couldn't get the tag name even after using setIgnoringElementContentWhitespace true.
          Document document = null;
          DocumentBuilderFactory documentBuilderFactory = DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance();
          documentBuilderFactory.setIgnoringElementContentWhitespace(true);
          try
               DocumentBuilder documentBuilder = documentBuilderFactory.newDocumentBuilder();
               File file = new File("c:/example.xml");
               document = documentBuilder.parse(file);
               Node node = document.getDocumentElement().getFirstChild();
               System.out.println("node.getNodeName: "+node.getNodeName());
               System.out.println("node.getNodeValue: "+node.getNodeValue());
it really confuses what im going wrong.
can you let me know if the code that i have given is correct?
thanks,
Harish