Sun XML Lib

Thum Ching Kuan ckthum at krdl.org.sg
Thu Nov 12 02:44:06 GMT 1998


> Hi,
> 
> Has any one used the Sun XML library. My question is how to access the 
> child nodes from the root. 
> I have tried
> 
> ....main(String args[]){
> ....
> XmlDocument doc;
> Element root = doc.getDocumentElement();
> System.out.println("\nRoot: "+root.getTagName());
> System.out.println("\nFirstChild:"+
>                     (root.getFirstChild()).getNodeName());
> ...
> }
> The first print statement prints the root element, but the second print 
> statement prints #text which is not what I want. I want to print the 
> node name.

	You can use TreeWalker in the Sun XML lib to access a node by its
name.  If you want to traverse the DOM tree, you have to handle the white
space.  Try to implement a recursive method and print out all the child
nodes with its value, take a look at IBM XML4J example.

	For your case,
try
	Node sibling = root.getFirstChild();
	sibling = sibling.getNextSibling();

System.out.println((sibling=sibling.getNextSibling.getFirstChild()).getNodeValue());

You should be able to see "Roses are red,"
now.

cheers,
Thum


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