XML element as string??

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keshawra - 23 Jan 2006 05:19 GMT

Hi ,

I need to parse this XML using DOM in java.

<Replace><img src="/topcoder/images/smiles/base_smile.gif" border="0"
alt="smile"/></Replace>

have to get everyhing under "Replace" as String. i.e., replaceString =
"<img src="/topcoder/images/smiles/base_smile.gif" border="0"
alt="smile"/>"

JAXP is considering "img" as an element node as it is supposed to do.

can anyone suggest me???

kiri

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zero - 23 Jan 2006 14:01 GMT

keshawra <keshwara@cyberwerx.com> wrote in news:1137993343.720288@sj-
nntpcache-5:

> Hi ,
>
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>
> kiri

If <Replace> is supposed to hold strings, then your XML is flawed. The DTD
or Schema should complain that <Replace> should not contain other elements.
In other words: change the XML to use escape sequences (entity references)
instead of <, > and ". Alternatively, use a CDATA section.

If you cannot correct the XML file, you're probably going to need to find a
programmatic solution. One solution, although not very pretty, is just to
accept JAXP's output, and convert any elements within a <Replace> element
back to Strings.

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