Urgent: How to get value from Element Node?

Question

Hi All,
I have an xml like below:
<?xml version="1.0"?>     
<Accounts>
<Account rowid="1">
<Account_Id>1</Account_Id>
<Customer_Id>1</Customer_Id>
<Account_Type>SB</Account_Type>
<Balance>1000.00</Balance>
</Account>
<Account rowid="2">
<Account_Id>2</Account_Id>
<Customer_Id>1</Customer_Id>
<Account_Type>CD</Account_Type>
<Balance>1000.00</Balance>
</Account>
</Accounts>
I am trying to get the value in the Account_Id element, but I am getting null everytime. Here is my code:
import com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.xs.dom.DOMParser;
DOMParser parser = new DOMParser();
parser.parse("D:\\Temp\\PCORDBMS\\"+tableName+".xml");
Document doc = parser.getDocument();
NodeList nodes = doc.getElementsByTagName("Account");
for(int i=0;i<nodes.getLength();i++) {
Node fc=nodes.item(i).getFirstChild();
System.out.println(fc.getNodeValue());
I think, since fc node is of the type Element - getNodeValue() is not returning the value. I also tried getting child nodes, getting attributes for fc & then getNodeValue.
Am I missing something? Appreciate your help.
Thanks,
Niranjan

Answer 1

Hi Niranjan,
I used the JAXP DocumentBuilder and DocumentBuilderFactory classes. I use JSE 5.
Here's the complete code that works for me:
package com.trfsol.domtester;
import javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilder;
import javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilderFactory;
import org.w3c.dom.Document;
import org.w3c.dom.Node;
import org.w3c.dom.NodeList;
public class DomTester {
     * @param args
     public static void main(String[] args) {
          String filename = "C:\\Java workspaces\\Eclipse\\Workspace\\Test\\test.xml";
          try {
               // Parse XML file
               DocumentBuilderFactory factory =
                    DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance();
               DocumentBuilder parser = factory.newDocumentBuilder();
               Document document = parser.parse(filename);
               // Get all "Account" nodes
               NodeList accountNodes = document.getElementsByTagName("Account");
               // Iterate over nodes
               for (int index = 0; index < accountNodes.getLength(); index ++) {
                    NodeList childNodes = accountNodes.item(index).getChildNodes();
                    for (int subIndex = 0; subIndex < childNodes.getLength(); subIndex ++) {
                         Node childNode = childNodes.item(subIndex);
                         System.out.println(childNode.getTextContent());
          catch (Exception e) {
               System.err.println("Exception: " + e.getMessage());
Regards, Ronald