IXmlPullParser.NextText Method

Definition

Namespace:

Org.XmlPull.V1

Assembly:

Mono.Android.dll

If current event is START_TAG then if next element is TEXT then element content is returned or if next event is END_TAG then empty string is returned, otherwise exception is thrown.

[Android.Runtime.Register("nextText", "()Ljava/lang/String;", "GetNextTextHandler:Org.XmlPull.V1.IXmlPullParserInvoker, Mono.Android, Version=0.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=null")]
public string? NextText ();

[<Android.Runtime.Register("nextText", "()Ljava/lang/String;", "GetNextTextHandler:Org.XmlPull.V1.IXmlPullParserInvoker, Mono.Android, Version=0.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=null")>]
abstract member NextText : unit -> string

Returns

String

Attributes

RegisterAttribute

Exceptions

XmlPullParserException

IOException

Remarks

If current event is START_TAG then if next element is TEXT then element content is returned or if next event is END_TAG then empty string is returned, otherwise exception is thrown. After calling this function successfully parser will be positioned on END_TAG.

The motivation for this function is to allow to parse consistently both empty elements and elements that has non empty content, for example for input: <ol> <li>&lt;tag&gt;foo&lt;/tag&gt; <li>&lt;tag&gt;&lt;/tag&gt; (which is equivalent to &lt;tag/&gt; both input can be parsed with the same code:

p.nextTag()
              p.requireEvent(p.START_TAG, "", "tag");
              String content = p.nextText();
              p.requireEvent(p.END_TAG, "", "tag");

This function together with nextTag make it very easy to parse XML that has no mixed content.

Essentially it does this

if(getEventType() != START_TAG) {
                throw new XmlPullParserException(
                  "parser must be on START_TAG to read next text", this, null);
             }
             int eventType = next();
             if(eventType == TEXT) {
                String result = getText();
                eventType = next();
                if(eventType != END_TAG) {
                  throw new XmlPullParserException(
                     "event TEXT it must be immediately followed by END_TAG", this, null);
                 }
                 return result;
             } else if(eventType == END_TAG) {
                return "";
             } else {
                throw new XmlPullParserException(
                  "parser must be on START_TAG or TEXT to read text", this, null);
             }

<strong>Warning:</strong> Prior to API level 14, the pull parser returned by android.util.Xml did not always advance to the END_TAG event when this method was called. Work around by using manually advancing after calls to nextText():

String text = xpp.nextText();
             if (xpp.getEventType() != XmlPullParser.END_TAG) {
                 xpp.next();
             }

Java documentation for org.xmlpull.v1.XmlPullParser.nextText().

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