Re: [ot] JAXP Problems

[John Woolsey]

After much futzing around I realized that the data is a child node and 
then things got better. Thanx for the help.

                                                                        
           - bfn - JAW

toby cabot wrote:
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?

   

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      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