Issue while reading xml contents

Question

I need a little help in one of the scenario I have. I have this XMl

<catalogOfferID>
   <catalogOfferID>5609805</catalogOfferID>
</catalogOfferID>

I wanted to fetch 5609805 from this as catalogOfferID.

The logic I am using

But the problem is as due to the same name of parent and child tag it is giving me result like <catalogOfferID>5609805

Please help me in solving this problem.

TIA.

Where is the logic you are using? To me, the result looks legit, apart from the need to cast that string to an integer — Nico Haase, Apr 05 '18 at 11:33
@NicoHaase The result seems to be together with the ``, which was not shown due to missing formatting... Found this via *edit*. But the *logic I am using* is not there at all... — Shnugo, Apr 05 '18 at 11:58

score 2 · Answer 1 · edited Jun 20 '20 at 09:12

A quick shot is to use an XPath like this:

//catalogOfferID/catalogOfferID/text()

or

//catalogOfferID[text()]/text()

But what you show is not enough for a serious answer...

UPDATE

After reading your question in edit-mode I found, that you get the result as

<catalogOfferID>5609805

This shows quite clearly, that you are trying to get this on string level between <catalogOfferID> and </catalogOfferID>. You should never!! read XML this way. Use the appropriate XML classes! Read this and this for a start.

Issue while reading xml contents

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