Java XML Node Remove removeEmptyHeadings(Node root)

Description

remove Empty Headings

License

Open Source License

Declaration

public static void removeEmptyHeadings(Node root) 

Method Source Code

//package com.java2s;
/**/*from   www.jav a  2s.  c om*/
 *  odt2braille - Braille authoring in OpenOffice.org.
 *
 *  Copyright (c) 2010-2011 by DocArch <http://www.docarch.be>.
 *
 *  This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
 *  it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as
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 *
 *  This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
 *  but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
 *  MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
 *  GNU Lesser General Public License for more details.
 *
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 *  along with this program.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
 */

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

public class Main {
    public static void removeEmptyHeadings(Node root) {

        // for each text:h
        // remove empty headings
        NodeList hNodes = ((Element) root).getElementsByTagName("text:h");
        for (int i = 0; i < hNodes.getLength(); i++) {

            Node node = hNodes.item(i);

            if (node.getChildNodes().getLength() > 0) {

                boolean empty = true;

                for (int j = 0; j < node.getChildNodes().getLength(); j++) {
                    if (!node.getChildNodes().item(j).getTextContent()
                            .trim().equals("")) {
                        empty = false;
                    }
                }

                if (empty) {
                    node.getParentNode().removeChild(node);
                    i--;
                }

            } else {
                if (node.getTextContent().trim().equals("")) {
                    node.getParentNode().removeChild(node);
                    i--;
                }
            }
        }
    }
}

Related

1. removeContents(Node parent)
2. removeElement(Element parent, String tagName)
3. removeElements(Node parent, String nature)
4. removeElementXML(Node node, short nodeType, String name)
5. removeEmptyHeadings(Node root)
6. removeEmptyLines(Node node)
7. removeEmptyNodes(Node node)
8. removeEmptyParagraphs(Node root)
9. removeEmptyTextNodes(Node parentNode)