On Tue, Aug 24, 2004 at 08:38:16AM -0400, John Woolsey wrote:
> Okay I am having trouble with JAXP. I parse through the tree and find my
> element_nodes easily. Then I go for getNodeValue and it always seems to
> be null. I am using Xerces 2 to process. Any ideas what I am doing wrong?
>
snip...
> Node child = childList.item(i);
> if( child.getNodeType() == Node.ELEMENT_NODE){
> Element element = (Element)child;
> String name = element.getTagName();
> NamedNodeMap namedNodeMap = element.getAttributes();
> System.out.println( name + " " +
> namedNodeMap.item(0).getNodeValue() );
> result.put( name, child.getNodeValue() );
I'm not a JAXP expert, but I play one on mailing lists. I checked the
javadoc of the Node class and it looks as if it's behaving as
documented: the nodeValue of an element node is null.
http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/docs/api/org/w3c/dom/Node.html
see the table in the introduction.
HTH,
Toby
