[GROOVY-2154] properties of Node obscure xml elements with GPath after using XmlParser - ASF JIRA

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def xml="""
<doc>
<name>My Doc Name</name>
<description>this is my doc</description>
</doc>
"""

def p = new XmlParser()
def doc = p.parseText(xml)

def desc = doc.description[0].text()
def name = doc.name[0].text() //exception

groovy.lang.MissingMethodException: No signature of method: java.lang.String.text() is applicable for argument types: () values: {}

Obviously the groovy.util.Node class' 'name' property is obscuring the element.

I had to resort to this to get the value for the name element:

def names = doc.directChildren.grep

{ node-> node.name=="name" }

def name=nms[0].text()

It seems like this conflict would happen for any elements with the same name as properties of the Node class.