Reading from XML file using DOM parser.

Question

Hi,
I have written the following java code to read the XML file and print the values. It reads the XML file. It gets the node NAME and prints it. But it returns null when trying to get the node VALUE. I am unable to figure out why.
Can anyone please help me with this.
Thanks and Regards,
Shweta
import java.io.*;
import java.net.*;
import java.util.*;
import oracle.xml.parser.v2.*;
import org.w3c.dom.*;
import org.xml.sax.SAXException;
public class ReadNodes
private static XMLDocument mDoc;
public ReadNodes () {
     try {
DOMParser lParser = new DOMParser();
URL lUrl = createURL("mot.xml");
System.out.println("after creating the URL object ");
lParser.setErrorStream(System.out);
lParser.showWarnings(true);
lParser.parse(lUrl);
mDoc = lParser.getDocument();
     System.out.println("after creating the URL object "+mDoc);
lParser.reset();
} catch (Exception e) {
e.printStackTrace();
} // end catch block
} // End of constructor
public void read() throws DOMException {
try {
     NodeList lTrans = this.mDoc.getElementsByTagName("TRANSLATION");
     for(int i=0;i<lTrans.getLength();i++) {
          NodeList lTrans1 = lTrans.item(i).getChildNodes();
          System.out.println("lTrans1.item(0).getNodeName : " + lTrans1.item(0).getNodeName());
          System.out.println("lTrans1.item(0).getNodeValue : " + lTrans1.item(0).getNodeValue());
          System.out.println("lTrans1.item(1).getNodeName : " + lTrans1.item(1).getNodeName());
          System.out.println("lTrans1.item(1).getNodeValue : " + lTrans1.item(1).getNodeValue());
     } catch (Exception e) {
     System.out.println("Exception "+e);
     e.printStackTrace();
     } catch (Throwable t) {
          System.out.println("Exception "+t);
public static URL createURL(String pFileName) throws MalformedURLException {
URL url = null;
try {
url = new URL(pFileName);
} catch (MalformedURLException ex) {
File f = new File(pFileName);
String path = f.getAbsolutePath();
String fs = System.getProperty("file.separator");
System.out.println(" path of file : "+path +"separator " +fs);
if (fs.length() == 1) {
char sep = fs.charAt(0);
if (sep != '/')
path = path.replace(sep, '/');
if (path.charAt(0) != '/')
path = '/' + path;
path = "file://" + path;
System.out.println("path is : "+path);
// Try again, if this throws an exception we just raise it up
url = new URL(path);
} // End catch block
return url;
} // end method create URL
public static void main (String args[]) {
     ReadNodes mXML = new ReadNodes();
     mXML.read();
The XML file that I am using is
<?xml version = "1.0"?>
<DOCUMENT>
<LANGUAGE_TRANS>
<TRANSLATION>
<CODE>3</CODE>
<VALUE>Please select a number</VALUE>
</TRANSLATION>
<TRANSLATION>
<CODE>5</CODE>
<VALUE>Patni</VALUE>
</TRANSLATION>
<TRANSLATION>
<CODE>6</CODE>
<VALUE>Status Messages</VALUE>
</TRANSLATION>
<TRANSLATION>
<CODE>7</CODE>
<VALUE>Progress</VALUE>
</TRANSLATION>
<TRANSLATION>
<CODE>8</CODE>
<VALUE>Create Data Files...</VALUE>
</TRANSLATION>
<TRANSLATION>
<CODE>9</CODE>
<VALUE>OK</VALUE>
</TRANSLATION>
</LANGUAGE_TRANS>
</DOCUMENT>

Answer 1

because what you want is not the node value of CODE but the node value of the text nodes into it!
assuming only one text node into it, try this:
System.out.println("lTrans1.item(0).getNodeName : " + lTrans1.item(0).getFirstChild().getNodeValue());