Thread: Problems reading XML file -- casting problem

Well as you can probably notice this is my very first post in this forum so i do not really have any idea how to do this properly.
Below i copied and pasted the full code of one of my little programs.

The error message shown if i try to launch the program is "Exception in thread "main" java.lang.ClassCastException: com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.dom.DeferredTex tImpl cannot be cast to org.w3c.dom.Element
at studying.MoviesTrying.main(MoviesTrying.java:20)"

import javax.xml.parsers.*;
import org.xml.sax.*;
import org.w3c.dom.*;  // imports
 
import java.text.*;
 
 
 
public class MoviesTrying
{
	private static NumberFormat cf = NumberFormat.getCurrencyInstance();
 
	public static void main(String[] args)
	{
 
		Document doc = getDocument("C:\\Users\\Edi\\Desktop\\Chris\\Program\\eclipse\\eclipse\\workspace\\studies\\movies.xml");
		//above i use my own method getDocument to create a doc
 
 
		Element root = (Element)doc.getDocumentElement(); 		//at this line i get the error (Line 20) --
                                                                                                //com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.dom.DeferredTextImpl cannot                                               [#]                                                                                            //be cast to org.w3c.dom.Element
												//at studying.MoviesTrying.main(MoviesTrying.java:20)
 
 
		Element movieElement =  (Element) root.getFirstChild(); //the rest should not be hard to figure out
																// i use the getMovies method i created below to retrieve
																//  year, title and price of the movies and move on to the next
																// element (in the loop)
		Movie m;
		while (movieElement != null)
		{
			m = getMovies(movieElement);
			String msg = Integer.toString(m.year);
			msg += " : " + m.title;
			msg += " ( " + cf.format(m.price) + ").";
			System.out.println(msg);
			movieElement = (Element)movieElement.getNextSibling();
		}
	}
 
 
	private static Document getDocument(String name)   //a method to return a doc builder 
	{
		try 
		{
			DocumentBuilderFactory factory = DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance();
			factory.setIgnoringComments(true);
			factory.setIgnoringElementContentWhitespace(true);
	//		factory.setValidating(true);
 
			DocumentBuilder builder = factory.newDocumentBuilder();
			return builder.parse(new InputSource(name));
		}catch(Exception e)
		{
			System.out.println(e.getMessage());
		}
		return null;
 
	}
 
	private static Movie getMovies(Element e)      // getting the values of the Elements (year is an attribute) from my .xml file
 
	{
		String yearString = e.getAttribute("year");
		int year = Integer.parseInt(yearString);
 
		Element tElement = (Element)e.getFirstChild();
		String title = getTextValue(tElement).trim();
 
		Element pElement = (Element)tElement.getNextSibling();
		String pString = getTextValue(pElement).trim();
		double price = Double.parseDouble(pString);
 
		return new Movie(title,year,price);
	}
 
	private static String getTextValue(Node n)
	{
		return n.getFirstChild().getNodeValue();
 
	}
 
	private static class Movie 
	{
		public String title;
		public int year;
		public double price;
 
		public Movie(String title, int year, double price)
		{
			this.title = title;
			this.year = year;
			this.price = price;
		}
 
	}
 
 
}

DeferredTextImpl inherits from the Node class, not the Element class. You cannot cast to Element.