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POWhy are there #text nodes in my xml file?
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    copied!<p>I'm making an android application that does DOM parsing on an xml file. I have an xml file that looks like this:</p> <pre><code>&lt;?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?&gt; &lt;family&gt; &lt;grandparent&gt; &lt;parent1&gt; &lt;child1&gt;Foo&lt;/child1&gt; &lt;child2&gt;Bar&lt;/child2&gt; &lt;/parent1&gt; &lt;parent2&gt; &lt;child1&gt;Raz&lt;/child1&gt; &lt;child2&gt;Mataz&lt;/child2&gt; &lt;/parent2&gt; &lt;/grandparent&gt; &lt;/family&gt; </code></pre> <p>If I run a dom parser on it, like this:</p> <pre><code>try { DocumentBuilder builder = DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance().newDocumentBuilder(); Document doc = builder.parse(input); doc.getDocumentElement().normalize(); //added in since the edit NodeList nodd = doc.getElementsByTagName("grandparent"); for (int x = 0; x &lt; nodd.getLength(); x++){ Node node = nodd.item(x); NodeList nodes = node.getChildNodes(); for(int y = 0; y &lt; nodes.getLength(); y++){ Node n = nodes.item(y); System.out.println(n.getNodeName()); } } } </code></pre> <p>My application prints out the following</p> <blockquote> <p>07-20 18:24:28.395: INFO/System.out(491): #text</p> <p>07-20 18:24:28.395: INFO/System.out(491): parent1 </p> <p>07-20 18:24:28.395: INFO/System.out(491): #text </p> <p>07-20 18:24:28.395: INFO/System.out(491): parent2 </p> <p>07-20 18:24:28.395: INFO/System.out(491): #text</p> </blockquote> <p>My question is, what are those #text fields and more importantly, how do I get rid of them?</p> <p><strong>Edit:</strong> So now that I know what they are, I tried to normalize it. I have updated the code to reflect the changes, but same result.</p>
 

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