Thread: Basic XML Reading Question

I have what should be an extremely easy XML question. I'm not sure why I can't figure it out on my own.

Okay, so I have an XML node which looks like this:

<spend>
	<metal>1</metal>
	<rope>1</rope>
</spend>

I need to get each node within the spend tag. This is what I tried to do:

Element spendElement = ...;
NodeList spendList = spendElement.getChildNodes();
for(int i=0;i<spendList.getLength();i++) {
	Node spendResource = spendList.item(i);
	logger.info("Node Name: "+spendResource.getNodeName());
	...
}

But that prints out:

Node Name: #text

NOTE: an exception is thrown later due to the name, so the program doesn't print the second line

I would like it to say:

Node Name: metal
Node Name: rope

Thoughts?

EDIT: I'm using org.w3c.dom, btw.