Find Element And Set Or Create And Set : DOM Element « XML « Java






  1. Java
  2. XML
  3. DOM Element

Find Element And Set Or Create And Set

    
import org.w3c.dom.Document;
import org.w3c.dom.Element;
import org.w3c.dom.NodeList;

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/**
 * Various XML utilities.
 * 
 * @author simonjsmith, ksim
 * @version 1.1 - ksim - March 6th, 2007 - Added functions regarding streaming
 * @version 1.2 - ksim - March 10th, 2007 - Added functions regarding DOM
 *          manipulation
 */
public class Utils {
  public static Element findElementAndSetElseCreateAndSet(Document document,
      Element parent, String child, boolean value) {
    return findElementAndSetElseCreateAndSet(document, parent, child, ""
        + value);
  }

  public static Element findElementAndSetElseCreateAndSet(Document document,
      Element parent, String child, float value) {
    return findElementAndSetElseCreateAndSet(document, parent, child, ""
        + value);
  }
  public static Element findElementAndSetElseCreateAndSet(Document document,
      Element parent, String element, Date date) {
    return findElementAndSetElseCreateAndSet(document, parent, element,
        getDateString(date));
  }
  public static Element findElementAndSetElseCreateAndSet(Document document,
      Element parent, String child, String value) {
    NodeList nl = parent.getElementsByTagName(child);
    if (nl.getLength() == 0) {
      parent.appendChild(document.createElement(child));
    }
    Element ret = (Element) parent.getElementsByTagName(child).item(0);
    if (ret.getFirstChild() != null) {
      ret.removeChild(ret.getFirstChild());
    }
    ret.appendChild(document.createTextNode(value));
    return ret;
  }
}








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