Root Element of a Text Node

Question

Hi All,
I have the following XML Document.
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<addressbook>
<address>
<fname>Bill</fname>
<lname>Gates</lname>
<address>
<address>
<fname>Jones</fname>
<lname>Bill</lname>
<address>
<address>
<fname>Mark</fname>
<lname>Anderson</lname>
<address>
<address>
<fname>Bill</fname>
<lname>Sam</lname>
<address>
<address>
<fname>Charles</fname>
<lname>Corbel</lname>
<address>
</addressbook>
I need all the root element in the xml Document which has the data "Bill". How i can find that?
Thanks in Advance,
Mohideen.

Answer 1

Hi Amaury,
Thanks for your response.
Already, I have been working on the logic that you had suggested. But it complicates the code much.
I found JDOM API has the Text class with constructor of the type
Text(java.lang.String str).I used that in my class.
Here is the code,
import org.jdom.*;
import org.jdom.JDOMException;
import org.jdom.input.SAXBuilder;
public class SearchText
public static void main(String[] args)
try
// use SAXBuilder to create DOM from numerous types of input
SAXBuilder builder = new SAXBuilder();
// expand entities within the SAXBuilder
//builder.setExpandEntities(true);
// SAXBuilder is more does create the entire DOM at once
org.jdom.Document doc = builder.build(args[0]);
System.out.println( doc );
Text text = new Text("bill");
//how to find out this text object in the Document class object
Element parent = text.getParent();
System.out.println("Parent:"+parent.toString());
catch (JDOMException e)
e.printStackTrace();
I am getting the following run time error,
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NullPointerException
at SearchText.main(SearchText.java:24)
Please kindly notify me where i did the mistake.
Thanks,
Mohideen.