XMLUtil.java

package liquibase.util;

import org.w3c.dom.Node;
import org.w3c.dom.NodeList;
import org.w3c.dom.Text;

/**
 * Various utility methods for working with XML.
 */
public class XMLUtil {
    /**
     * Extracts the text from the given element.
     * Element.getTextContet() is java5 specific, so we need to use this until we drop 1.4 support.
     */
    public static String getTextContent(Node element) {
        StringBuffer text = new StringBuffer();
        NodeList childNodes = element.getChildNodes();
        for (int i=0; i< childNodes.getLength(); i++) {
            Node child = childNodes.item(i);
            if (child instanceof Text) {
                text.append(child.getNodeValue());
            }
        }

        return text.toString();
    }
}