NonValidating DOM Parser & Whitespace text nodes

Question

Hello,
Using the DOM parser and the Oracle samples (DOMSample),I wrote a
java progam to filter an XML file.
Ex:<a>
1
<c>2</c>
</a>
to
a:
b:1
c:2
end
It works fine. But when I set the parsers validation mode to
false, my code fails. It seems that a TEXTNODE is now generated
containing the whitespace of the file as I traverse the DOM tree.
Should I code around this or is there another way to handle
this unexpected textnode?
Bob
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Answer 1

Correct me if i am wrong.
The Element object you are referring to is of type
org.w3c.dom.Element.
And as far as i know, it doesn't have any methods
such as getTextContent().Even the Node class does not
have such method.Yes you are wrong , with JDK 1.5 they do have getTextContent() method for org.w3c.dom Node & Element .
@ OP , dont know why your getTextContent is not working its working over here for me .
You may iterate over such a Node and remove the contents.
for. eg.
<Name>Son</Name>
Node name //(is ur node )
NodeList nk = node.getChildNodes();
                          String val= null;
                          for (int j=0; j < nk.getLength(); j++) {
                            Node k = nk.item(j);
                            val=  k.getNodeValue();
                          }Now u may use the value collected in String val
but make sure u apply this code only to above type of node, viz <Name>Son</Name>