Voidavesta
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I have been struggling on this for quite a while.I'm trying to figure out how to get "Crime, Drama, and Thriller. from category any category using DOM for Java. I'm also having trouble understanding how I should dive into this. (for Instance, should I pull categories out first, then reference each category as a child, or reference immediately by attribute.\[code\]<movie><homepage>http://www.sincitythemovie.com/<;/homepage><trailer>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=80<;/trailer><categories><category type="genre" name="Crime" url="http://themoviedb.org/genre/crime" id="80"/><category type="genre" name="Drama" url="http://themoviedb.org/genre/drama" id="18"/><category type="genre" name="Thriller" url="http://themoviedb.org/genre/thriller" id="53"/></categories></movie>\[/code\]This is what I've been using for < open > somthing < /open >\[code\]private String getTextValue(Element ele, String tagName) {String textVal = null;NodeList nl = ele.getElementsByTagName(tagName);if (nl != null && nl.getLength() > 0) {Element el = (Element) nl.item(0);textVal = el.getFirstChild().getNodeValue();}return textVal;}\[/code\]