Groovy get text of node that has children [duplicate] - groovy

Question

I need to access the new value for each field if it exists, and the "previous" value in order to determine if a record has a change.
Sample XML Payload
<Persons>
<Person>
<id>8675309</id>
<person>
<action>CHANGE</action>
<status>
active
<previous>inactive</previous>
</status>
</person>
</Person>
<Person>
<id>8675308</id>
<person>
<action>CHANGE</action>
<code>
5678
<previous>1234</previous>
</code>
</person>
</Person>
</Persons>
I am using XmlParser/XmlSlurper to iterate over a similar xml payload that's provided from an API which includes the previous value in the field as a sub-field, how can I access just the root value of the status field in the above payload?
xml.each { it ->
PersonId = it.id.text();
Status = it.person.status.text(); // this is including the new and previous, 'activeinactive', and not just 'active'
PrevStatus = it.person.status.previous.text();
if (Status && PrevStatus) {
// Status has changed, do something
}
};

Answer 1

If you are using XmlParser, you need localText() instead of text()
Here is my test xml file
<Persons>
<Person>
<id>8675309</id>
<person>
<action>CHANGE</action>
<status>
active
<previous>inactive</previous>
</status>
</person>
</Person>
</Persons>
This is my script:
def xml = new XmlParser().parse("text.xml")
xml.each { it ->
def personId = it.id.text();
def status = it.person.status[0].localText()[0].trim()
def prevStatus = it.person.status.previous.text();
println status
println prevStatus
};
Output after executing the script:
active
inactive
Note: I am using groovy3