public String getElementText()

in axiom-compat/src/main/java/org/apache/axiom/util/stax/AbstractXMLStreamReader.java [165:197]
29 lines of code
11 McCabe index (conditional complexity)

    public String getElementText() throws XMLStreamException {
        ///////////////////////////////////////////////////////
        //// Code block directly from the API documentation ///
        if (getEventType() != XMLStreamConstants.START_ELEMENT) {
            throw new XMLStreamException(
                    "parser must be on START_ELEMENT to read next text", getLocation());
        }
        int eventType = next();
        StringBuffer content = new StringBuffer();
        while (eventType != XMLStreamConstants.END_ELEMENT) {
            if (eventType == XMLStreamConstants.CHARACTERS
                    || eventType == XMLStreamConstants.CDATA
                    || eventType == XMLStreamConstants.SPACE
                    || eventType == XMLStreamConstants.ENTITY_REFERENCE) {
                content.append(getText());
            } else if (eventType == XMLStreamConstants.PROCESSING_INSTRUCTION
                    || eventType == XMLStreamConstants.COMMENT) {
                // skipping
            } else if (eventType == XMLStreamConstants.END_DOCUMENT) {
                throw new XMLStreamException(
                        "unexpected end of document when reading element text content");
            } else if (eventType == XMLStreamConstants.START_ELEMENT) {
                throw new XMLStreamException(
                        "element text content may not contain START_ELEMENT");
            } else {
                throw new XMLStreamException(
                        "Unexpected event type " + eventType, getLocation());
            }
            eventType = next();
        }
        return content.toString();
        ///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
    }