Traversing DOM Tree - getNodeValue issue

[Hemanth D.]

I have the following code snippet to traverse a NodeList (all element
nodes retrieved using getElementsByTagName). The getNodeName() retrieves
the correct name. However, the getNodeValue() is not printing out the
value. (We have tried dynamic_cast of xNode3 to a DOMElement also but
this also doesn't work. We have also tried using getFirstChild()/
getNextSibling() instead of the below for-loop - but same result. The
NodeName returns the correct value but the NodeValue doesn't)

Can someone please help identifying the problem?

The parser used is XercesDOMParser - parsing a XML using a
MemBufInputSource (rather than a XML file)

    DOMNodeList* xNodeList3   = xNode->getChildNodes();
    const  XMLSize_t ixNodeCount3 = xNodeList3->getLength();

    for (int i3=0; i3<ixNodeCount3; i3++)
    {
        DOMNode* xNode3 = xNodeList3->item(i3);

        if (DOMNode::ELEMENT_NODE == xNode3->getNodeType())
        {
            char* sxNode3Name  =
XMLString::transcode(xNode3->getNodeName());                    // OK
            char* sxNode3Value =
XMLString::transcode(xNode3->getNodeValue());                   //
retrieves null string

            cout << "Rule: " << (i+1) << "\tNode: " << sxNode3Name <<
"\tValue: " << sxNode3Value<< endl;

            XMLString::release(&sxNode3Name);
            XMLString::release(&sxNode3Value);
        }
    }
    delete xNodeList3;

The XML string used:

        const string sXML = "<?xml version='1.0'?>\
                                <kfRuleSet>\
                                <kfRule valueType='CONTENT'>\
                                <kfStart>11</kfStart>\
                                <kfEnd>15</kfEnd>\
                                </kfRule>\
                                <kfRule valueType='STATIC'>\
                                <kfText>-</kfText>\
                                </kfRule>\
                                </kfRuleSet>";

Actual Output
        Rule: 1 Node:   kfStart Value:
        Rule: 1 Node:   kfEnd   Value:
        Rule: 2 Node:   kfText  Value:

Expected Output
        Rule: 1 Node:   kfStart Value: 11
        Rule: 1 Node:   kfEnd   Value: 15
        Rule: 2 Node:   kfText  Value: -



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