Issues trying to go through an example

Hello, I'm trying the example on the first page from this url http://blogs.mathworks.com/community/2010/11/01/xml-and-matlab-navigating-a-tree/

I can't seem to get the first example to work:

% Get the "AddressBook" node
addressBookNode = docNode.getDocumentElement;
% Get all the "Entry" nodes
entries = addressBookNode.getChildNodes;
% Get the first "Entry"'s children
% Remember that java arrays are zero-based
friendlyInfo = entries.item(0).getChildNodes;
% Iterate over the nodes to find the "PhoneNumber"
% once there are no more siblinings, "node" will be empty
node = friendlyInfo.getFirstChild;
while ~isempty(node)
    if strcmpi(node.getNodeName, 'PhoneNumber')
        break;
    else
        node = node.getNextSibling;
    end
end
phoneNumber = node.getTextContent

I get the following error:

No appropriate method, property, or field getFirstChild
for class org.apache.xerces.dom.CharacterDataImpl$1.

Any clue to why this happens?

Thanks, Stephan

[Jack Latham]

I'm also having this issue - did you resolve it by any chance?

Answer 1

[Chris]

Try this: friendlyInfo = entries.item(1).getChildNodes;

It worked for me.

[cnfan_sd70]

have tried your suggestion Chris and it returns no error. however when i do the next step:

>> node = friendlyInfo.getFirstChild

I get the following returned:

node =
[#text: 
      ]

And

  >> node.getNodeName

just returns:

  #text

Anybody know why?

I have been performing this on the self same example xml that he gives in the article

Frankly this example needs to be updated because it doesn't work.