[jdom-interest] retrieving the children of an element as text

Jason Hunter jhunter at servlets.com
Wed Sep 13 11:18:24 PDT 2006


I'd recommend xmlOutputter.outputString(mainelement.getContent()).

You could also output the entire mainelement with 
outputString(mainelement) and then rip off the outer tags manually.

-jh-

Fabrizio Lippolis wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have an element and I want to retrieve a String which contains the 
> children of my element including their text. For example if I have 
> mainelement in this way
> 
> <mainelement>
>     <one>one</one>
>     <two>two</two>
> </mainelement>
> 
> then I want to get
> 
> <one>one</one>
> <two>two</two>
> 
> I should also respect the formatting so that if I have
> 
> <mainelement>
>     <one>one</one><two>two</two>
> </mainelement>
> 
> I should get
> 
> <one>one</one><two>two</two>
> 
> Any suggestion please?
> 
> Best regards,
> Fabrizio
> 
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