Suppress text nodes in output when empty

[Ela Smith]

Hello @all!
I try to output the nodes plus additional information of an xml-file.
Here is the code with wich I do it:

package src.test;
import javax.xml.parsers.*;
import org.xml.sax.*;
import org.w3c.dom.*;
import java.io.*;
import java.util.*;
public class DOMTest
{
    static Document document;
    
    /**
     * @param args the command line arguments
     */
    public static void main(String[] args)
    {
        if (args.length != 1)
        {
            System.err.println("Usage: java DomEcho filename");
            System.exit(1);
        }
        
        //Obtain an instance of a factory that can give us a document builder
        DocumentBuilderFactory factory = DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance();
        factory.setIgnoringElementContentWhitespace(true);
        
        try
        {
            //Get an instance of a builder --> get a parser
            DocumentBuilder builder = factory.newDocumentBuilder();
            //use it to parse the specified file
            document = builder.parse(new File(args[0]));
            Element node = document.getDocumentElement();
            String s = node.getTagName();
            System.out.println(s);     
            
            NodeList nl = node.getChildNodes();
                                   
            for (int j=0; j<nl.getLength(); j++)
            {
                Node n = nl.item(j);
                children(n);
                
                NodeList nl1 = n.getChildNodes();                    
                for (int k=0; k<nl1.getLength(); k++)
                {
                    Node n1 = nl1.item(k);
                    children(n1);
                    
                    NodeList nl2 = n1.getChildNodes();
                    for (int l=0; l<nl2.getLength(); l++)
                    {
                        Node n2 = nl2.item(l);
                        children(n2);
                        
                        NodeList nl3 = n2.getChildNodes();
                        for (int m=0; m<nl3.getLength(); m++)
                        {
                            Node n3 = nl3.item(m);
                            children(n3);
                            
                            NodeList nl4 = n3.getChildNodes();
                            for (int p=0; p<nl4.getLength(); p++)
                            {
                                Node n4 = nl4.item(p);
                                children(n4);
                            }
                        }
                    }
                }                        
            }         
        }
        catch (ParserConfigurationException pce)
        {
            pce.printStackTrace();
        }
        catch (SAXException se)
        {
            se.printStackTrace();
        }
        catch (IOException ioe)
        {
            ioe.printStackTrace();
        }
    }
    
    public static void children(Node node)
    {
        Node n = node;
        
        short shrt = n.getNodeType();
        
        if (shrt == 1 | shrt == 3)
        {
            if (shrt == 1)
            {
                String str1 = n.getNodeName();
                System.out.println("NodeName: " + str1);
            }
            
            if (shrt == 3)
            {
                //if (! "".equalsIgnoreCase(n.getNodeValue()))
                if (n.getNodeValue() != null && n.getNodeValue() != "")
                {
                    String str1 = n.getNodeName();
                    String str2 = n.getNodeValue();
                    System.out.println("NodeName: " + str1 + ", NodeValue: " + str2);
                }
            }
            
            /*
            NamedNodeMap nnm = n.getAttributes();
            for (int i=0; i<nnm.getLength(); i++)
            {
                Node attribute = nnm.item(i);
                String s1 = attribute.getNodeName();
                String s2 = attribute.getNodeValue();
                System.out.println("    Attribut: " + s1 + ", Wert: " + s2);               
            }
             */
        }
    }
}

And that's part of the output I get:
infospace
NodeName: #text, NodeValue:
NodeName: subspace
NodeName: #text, NodeValue:
NodeName: EWGR
NodeName: #text, NodeValue:
NodeName: childNodes
NodeName: #text, NodeValue:
NodeName: childNode
NodeName: #text, NodeValue: C1
NodeName: #text, NodeValue:
NodeName: childNode
NodeName: #text, NodeValue: C2
NodeName: #text, NodeValue:
NodeName: childNode
NodeName: #text, NodeValue: C3
NodeName: #text, NodeValue:
NodeName: #text, NodeValue:
NodeName: #text, NodeValue:
NodeName: EWGR
NodeName: #text, NodeValue:
My question: How can I suppress the lines where the NodeName is #text and the NodeValue is empty?
First I tried this one:

if (! "".equalsIgnoreCase(n.getNodeValue()))
{   
String str1 = n.getNodeName();   
String str2 = n.getNodeValue();   
System.out.println("NodeName: " + str1 + ", NodeValue: " + str2)
}

Then I tried this one:

if (n.getNodeValue() != null && n.getNodeValue() != "")
{   
String str1 = n.getNodeName();   
String str2 = n.getNodeValue();   
System.out.println("NodeName: " + str1 + ", NodeValue: " + str2);
}
Last I tried this:
[code]
factory.setIgnoringElementContentWhitespace(true);

But nothing worked...
Can anybody help me with this problem, please?
Thanks a lot for your help in advance!
Ela

[Lasse Koskela]

How about this:

// print stuff if the node is not a text node
// or if it's not an all whitespace text node
if (node.getNodeType() != Node.TEXT_NODE
    || (node.getNodeValue() != null
        && node.getNodeValue().trim().length() == 0))
{
    System.out.println("NodeName: " + node.getNodeName() 
        + ", NodeValue: " + node.getNodeValue());
}

[rohit katta]

Thanks. It works like a charm