[jdom-interest] help please

[Ian Lea]

The one line of code you show looks fine and works for me:

$ cat x.java
import org.jdom.Document;
import org.jdom.input.SAXBuilder;
import java.io.FileInputStream;
 
public class x {
    public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
        Document doc = new SAXBuilder().build(new FileInputStream(args[0]));
       
System.out.println(doc.getRootElement().getChild("EightToNine").getChild("Description").getText());
    }
}

$ cat x.xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<diary>
  <EightToNine>
      <Description>This is a description.</Description>
      <Note>This is a note</Note>
   </EightToNine>
</diary>


$ java x x.xml
This is a description.


Compiled and run with jdom-b6 and xerces_1.2.3 and current directory
in the classpath.


--
Ian.
ian.lea at blackwell.co.uk


Hugh Mc Gauran wrote:
> 
> I have posted a couple of times before and the answers have been very
> helpful, i hope someone can help me with thois problem
> 
> I have an xml document 21-3-01.xml
> 
> i want to be able to read it in and get the text contained in the
> description and the note ...no matter what i do it just wont work for
> me. any ideas
> 
> i have tried
> doc.getRootElement().getChild("EightToNine").getChild("Description").getText();
> 
> to no avail...
> the xml file is as follows
> 
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
> <diary>
>   <EightToNine>
>       <Description>This is a description.</Description>
>       <Note>This is a note</Note>
>    </EightToNine>
> </diary>
> 
> --
> Regards
> Hugh