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Kay_Zee

Oct 26 2009, 12:08 AM

I've got my DOM working and reading/parsing an XML, but in my XML, certain nodes are repeated, eg.:

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<a>
 Something
 <c>Something
 <d>Info</d>
 <d>Info</d>
 </c>
</a>

I have a section of JavaScript set out to do this

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case Node.ELEMENT_NODE: {
 String elementName = currnode.getNodeName();
 if (elementName.equals("b"))
 out.println("b: ");

 if (elementName.equals("d"))
 out.print("d: ");

With this code, when it reaches certain parts of my XML it'll print:

d: Info
d: Info

But I'd like it to be d: Info, Info. Is that possible?

CODE

case Node.TEXT_NODE: {
            String text = currnode.getNodeValue().trim();
            String textName = currnode.getNodeName();
            if (text.length() > 0) {
                out.println(text);
            }

The above code prints the actual text.

Christian J

Oct 26 2009, 09:41 AM

QUOTE

With this code, when it reaches certain parts of my XML it'll print:

d: Info
d: Info

That's because each separate D element prints a new P element:

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d:

QUOTE

But I'd like it to be d: Info, Info.

That looks like an array of the D elements' values. I'm not familiar with the kind of javascript you use above, with HTML most people seem to use foo.getElementsByTagName('d') to get an array (AKA "collection") of the D elements in the parent "foo". Then you can loop through that array, and print the child node value of each D element (if you are sure the child node of D is a text node) separated by e.g. commas.

Here's a good DOM reference for HTML: http://www.quirksmode.org/dom/w3c_core.html

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