getElementText
Reads the content of a text-only element, an exception is thrown if this is not a text-only element. Regardless of value of javax.xml.stream.isCoalescing this method always returns coalesced content.
Precondition: the current event is START_ELEMENT.
Postcondition: the current event is the corresponding END_ELEMENT.
The method does the following (implementations are free to optimized but must do equivalent processing):
if(getEventType() != XMLStreamConstants.START_ELEMENT) {
throw new XMLStreamException(
"parser must be on START_ELEMENT to read next text", getLocation());
}
int eventType = next();
StringBuffer content = new StringBuffer();
while(eventType != XMLStreamConstants.END_ELEMENT) {
if(eventType == XMLStreamConstants.CHARACTERS
|| eventType == XMLStreamConstants.CDATA
|| eventType == XMLStreamConstants.SPACE
|| eventType == XMLStreamConstants.ENTITY_REFERENCE) {
buf.append(getText());
} else if(eventType == XMLStreamConstants.PROCESSING_INSTRUCTION
|| eventType == XMLStreamConstants.COMMENT) {
// skipping
} else if(eventType == XMLStreamConstants.END_DOCUMENT) {
throw new XMLStreamException(
"unexpected end of document when reading element text content", this);
} else if(eventType == XMLStreamConstants.START_ELEMENT) {
throw new XMLStreamException(
"element text content may not contain START_ELEMENT", getLocation());
} else {
throw new XMLStreamException(
"Unexpected event type "+eventType, getLocation());
}
eventType = next();
}
return buf.toString();
- Specified by:
-
getElementText in interface XMLStreamReader
- Returns:
- the content of a text-only element
- Throws:
-
XMLStreamException - if the current event is not a START_ELEMENT or if a non text element is encountered