PullParser's getText returning null

Question

I am using pull parser to extract data from a XML String and have the below code. Now when the tag has been found and it also contains data/text in it I don’t understand why getText() is always returning null?

//…<tagDate>9/7/2014 12:00:00 AM</tagDate>…

xpp.next();
tagName = xpp.getName();
String text=xpp.getText();  //text is null
    if (tagName.equals("tagDate"))
    {
        xmlList.add(xpp.getText()); 
    }

Please help

Answer 1

getText() returns null because the currently selected XML entry (don't read tag or element) doesn't have any text. This is because the currently selected XML entry is of the type: opening tag.

What you should do is call next() so the XML parser selects the next XML entry which is of the type: text.

The XML entry after another next call will be of the type: closing tag.