从XML读取文本时如何忽略标签？

Question

I have an XML text containing nested tags. The structure is somewhat complicated. So i have used XPath queries to access a child node as described in this answer . However, now I have encountered text within that node which itself contains XML tag. This method stops reading as soon as it encounters another XML tag.

Following is the XML file:

<x>
    <y>
        <z>
            This is a <tag>text</tag>
        </z>
    </y>
</x>

In the above XML, text inside <z> can be accessed by following method:

XPath xpath = XPathFactory.newInstance().newXPath();
XPathExpression expr= xpath.compile("/x/y/z/text()");
String text = (String) expr.evaluate(doc, XPathConstants.STRING);

But the value of text comes out to be "This is a" only. I want the whole text to be displayed : This is a text

Answer 1

Simply use XPathExpression expr= xpath.compile("/x/y/z"); .