Question

sample xml document:

<a>
    <b>...</b>
    xyz
    <c>...</c>
</a>

Is there a way to extract the content xyz placed between the tags b and c using Java code (through DOM parsing)?

Answer 1

Assuming that element refers to tag ‘a’ following code should extract what you want and work also if you have content before and after the ‘b’ and ‘c’ tags

    NodeList content = element.getChildNodes();
    StringBuilder textContent = new StringBuilder();
    int cntLength = content.getLength();
    for ( int i = 0; i < cntLength; i++ ) {
        Node paramValue = content.item( i );
        short type = paramValue.getNodeType();
        if ( ( type == Node.TEXT_NODE ) || ( type == Node.CDATA_SECTION_NODE ) ) {
            textContent.append( ((CharacterData) paramValue).getData() );   //  Both Text and CDATASection nodes are SubType of CharacterData
        }
    }