> From the cookbook-example I got the impression that receiving
> a java.lang.String object is quite that simple :
>
> // snip
> Object obj =
> ((DatatypeElement)root.selectSingleNode("/record/field")).getValue();
> if (obj instanceof java.lang.String)
> { .... }
> // snip
>
> but it's not that simple, is it ? :)
> (I just got an ClassCastException from DefaultElement to DatatypeElement)
>
Hi Georges,
Your problem is not an XML but a JAVA problem ;-)
The getValue method returns a String object and
since your DatatypeElement class is not a sublass of String it will
never be possible to cast a String to a DatatypeElement.
Since the getValue() returns a String (that is what you are looking
for anyway) you do not need to cast and you do not
even need to test the class type :
// Get the string value of the node
String value = root.selectSingleNode("/record/field")).getValue();
Thierry
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