Android :: Get All Text - Including Encoded - From XML Text Node

I have a very basic question regarding encoded text in an XML Text node.

I am using the DOM parser javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilder to parse some xml. The xml has some international characters which are encoded in decimal unicode - eg. 'ó' is 'ó'.

The parser takes the encoded character out of the word for example jóbb and the Text node is left with jbb as the node value. If I use getData() on the Text node it returns jbb also. The character is not lost though - a sibling Node, an Entity Reference Node, has the decimal value and an index. The index value corresponds to where this character should be inserted. In this case for example if would have an index of 1 and value of '#234'.

This indicates that there must be a simple way of accessing the value of the Text node of its parent in such a way as to get 'jóbb'. It seems unlikely that I need to reconstruct this by doing a lookup to convert the encoded character to utf8 and then insert it into the string for the Text node. Does anyone know how this works?