Re: [dom4j-user] Extracting Text Fragments

[James Strachan]

Approach 1 is the best - then it'll make a List of all the Text nodes and you can just index into the List if you like   List fragments = root.selectNodes("text()") Node node1 = (Node) fragments.get(0); Node node2 = (Node) fragments.get(1);   String text1 = node1.getText(); String text2 = node2.getText();     Probably the fastest way though is just to iterate through the content looking for Text nodes...       for (Iterator iter = root.content().iterator(); iter.hasNext(); ) {         Node node = (Node) iter.next();         if (node instanceof Text) {             String text = node.getText();             ...         }     } James ------- http://radio.weblogs.com/0112098/ ----- Original Message ----- From: Terry Steichen To: James Strachan Sent: Tuesday, September 24, 2002 2:49 PM Subject: Re: [dom4j-user] Extracting Text Fragments James,   Yes, that works fine too.  Thank you.   Question: Assuming that I needed to pick out several text segments (separated by other tags), it would seem that there are at least two ways to go about this.   Approach 1 fragments = root.selectNodes("text()") tag1 = fragments.get(0).getText(); tag2 = fragments.get(1).getText(); ..   Approach 2 tag1 = root.selectSingleNode("text()[0]").getText(); tag2 = root.selectSingleNode("text()[1]").getText(); ..   Which one would be more efficient? (I presume - but don't know - that Approach 1 would be.)   Regards,   Terry   ----- Original Message ----- From: James Strachan To: Terry Steichen ; dom4j-user Sent: Tuesday, September 24, 2002 2:59 AM Subject: Re: [dom4j-user] Extracting Text Fragments I think in XPath something like the following would work...   piece/text()[1]   or as Steve just said in a seperate mail, you could just iterate through the Text nodes, using the first one you find. James ------- http://radio.weblogs.com/0112098/ ----- Original Message ----- From: Terry Steichen To: dom4j-user Sent: Monday, September 23, 2002 9:18 PM Subject: [dom4j-user] Extracting Text Fragments Assume I have an XML document including the following fragment:   <piece>text1<blob1>stuff</blob1>text2</piece>   How do you extract text1 separately from text2 - that is, programmatically distinguish where text1 ends and text2 begins?   Regards,   Terry