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How do you get a class attribute from a span tag

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Hi,

I am using org.w3c.dom to extract values from some HTML.

Some html with a span tag like this: <SPAN class='item c123'>-</SPAN>

My code is like this:

StringReader reader = new StringReader(html());
		InputSource inputSource = new InputSource(reader);
		SAX2DOM sax2dom = new SAX2DOM();

		Parser tagSoupParser = new Parser();
		tagSoupParser.setContentHandler(sax2dom);
		tagSoupParser.setFeature(Parser.namespacesFeature, false);
		tagSoupParser.parse(inputSource);

		Document document = (Document) sax2dom.getDOM();
		NodeList trElements = document.getElementsByTagName("span");

		Node node = trElements.item(0);


I would like to do something like this:
((Element)node).getAttributes().getNamedItem("class")

But that throws an "com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.dom.TextImpl
cannot be cast to org.w3c.dom.Element" exception.

How can I get the value of the class attribute in that span tag?

Thanks in advance!

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How do you get a class attribute from a span tag Daryn <darynholmes@gmail.com> - 2011-02-02 10:12 -0800

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