how to populate a text node

public class DOMGenerate{
public static void main{ String() argv ) {
try{
Document doc= new DocumentDmpl();
element root = doc.createElelment("person"); //Create Root
element item = doc.createElement("name");//Create element
item.appendChild( doc.createTextNode(GetNameFromBD()) );
root appendChild( item); // Attach the results of the query as a text node to element name

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bill