Re: [dom4j-dev] valueOf("text()") not getting full value?

[James Strachan]

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Hi Doug   Firstly if you want the XPath string value of a node you can just call the getStringValue() method.   node.getStringValue();   Secondly the valueOf() method always returns the XPath string value of the XPath expression you give so that   node.valueOf( "'." )   should pretty much equate to the same thing.   Though neither of these things explain your problem. Is there any way you can create a fragment of XML and demonstrate the problem with a snippet of code? Maybe you are actually adding null Strings to the XML document?   Element element = ...; element.addText ( null );   If this is the case then maybe we should explicitly check for null strings and quitely ignore them... James ----- Original Message ----- From: Doug Hoppes To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, October 25, 2001 12:41 PM Subject: [dom4j-dev] valueOf("text()") not getting full value? Hi all,       Has anyone had any problems with the [_currentNode.valueOf("text()")] not getting the entire value (or if it is, the value is not being stored in the Xml Dom tree properly?       I have a really really really large Xml Dom tree and looping through a bunch of nodes to extract some values (results from a database table: 60 columns by 4000 rows).  Some of my datavalues are coming out at "nul" or "n" as opposed to "null".  I checked  the xml string before building the dom and there are no "nul" or "n" values (The xml string correctly shows the "null").  However, when I use the valueOf("text()") method, I get only part of my value.       Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.   Doug Hoppes Charles River Development 781-238-0099 x269