XML DOM - getting data inbetween tags

[Mike Miller]

I am using apache's xerces (most recent) and Niko HTML to parse html
documents in to DOM objects to alter element's attribute values. After
getting html documents parsed successfully I can extract the node objects
and change the desired attributes.. My problem is this, how do I return the
document as a String after I have altered the node elements' attributes? My
other question is how can I access the data that would be in between tags
(i.e. <mytag>Text content here</mytag>)?

I have done some but limited research without much success, but I have
looked at the API's very closely and either there is something I don't
understand (which isn't inconceivable) or its not there...

If anyone could help me out on this, that would be great!

Thank you,

Mike Miller

 

[Murat G.]

AFAIK, to get the String representation of the document, you need to
write (or use) a general purpose DOM tree traversing code... I am not
aware of any interface method...

Re. data between tags: the text content within a DOM element is just a
type of node (TEXT_NODE) belonging to the child node list of that
element... You can use getChildNodes method to get a list of all child
nodes of an element and then weed out what you need.

Hope this helps,
Murat G.