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Michael A
Michael A

Reputation: 5850

Getting tags names of specific tag

Using XPath.

I have this doc:

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<root>
  <items>
    <item1>
      <tag1>1</tag1>
      <tag2>DFGGFDGF</tag2> 
      <tag3>3</tag3>
    </item1>

    <item2>
      <tag1>DFGD</tag1>
      <tag2>SDFSDFFSD</tag2>    
      <tag3>SDFSFDFS</tag3>
    </item2>
  </items>
</root>

I want to get the tags names of the item1 element.

Now i use this to get the tags value:

XPathExpression expr = xpath.compile("//"+ node_name +"/*/text()");
Object result = expr.evaluate(doc, XPathConstants.NODESET);
NodeList nodes = (NodeList) result;
for (int i = 0; i < nodes.getLength(); i++) {
  System.out.println(nodes.item(i).getNodeValue()); 
}

How do i get the tags names: tag1, tag2, tag3?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 110

Answers (3)

Joeri Hendrickx
Joeri Hendrickx

Reputation: 17445

First of all, don't use text() at the end of your XQuery. You need the nodes themselves. Second, don't take the node value, you need the node name instead.

XPathExpression expr = xpath.compile("//"+ node_name +"/*");
Object result = expr.evaluate(doc, XPathConstants.NODESET);
NodeList nodes = (NodeList) result;
for (int i = 0; i < nodes.getLength(); i++) {
  System.out.println(nodes.item(i).getNodeName()); 
}

Upvotes: 1

sreejith
sreejith

Reputation: 725

Give like this 

xpath.compile("//"+ node_name +"/*")

.......................

for (int i = 0; i < nodes.getLength(); i++) {
  System.out.println(nodes.item(i).getNodeName()); 
}

Upvotes: 2

Hiery Nomus
Hiery Nomus

Reputation: 17779

Try org.w3c.dom.Node#getNodeName() to get the name of the node.

Also see "org.w3c.dom.Node"

Upvotes: 0

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