Java Utililty Methods XML NodeList

List of utility methods to do XML NodeList

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The list of methods to do XML NodeList are organized into topic(s).

Method

ElementfindElement(NodeList elements, String elementName)
Find an Element of a given name in a NodeList 
for (int i = 0; i < elements.getLength(); i++) {
    Node currentNode = elements.item(i);
    if (currentNode.getNodeType() == Node.ELEMENT_NODE) {
        Element currentElement = (Element) currentNode;
        if (currentNode.getNodeName().equals(elementName)) {
            return currentElement;
return null;
LinkedListfindElementsIgnoreCase(String name, NodeList nodes)
Returns a list (possibly empty) with any Elements in the list of nodes with the given name (case insensitive). 
LinkedList<Element> found = new LinkedList<Element>();
for (int i = 0; i < nodes.getLength(); i++) {
    Node n = nodes.item(i);
    if (n.getNodeType() == Node.ELEMENT_NODE && n.getNodeName().equalsIgnoreCase(name)) {
        found.add((Element) n);
return found;
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NodefindNode(NodeList nodeList, String nodeName)
Search for the first Node with the nodeName().equals(nodeName) in the nodeList 
Node curNode;
for (int i = 0; i < nodeList.getLength(); i++) {
    curNode = nodeList.item(i);
    if (curNode.getNodeType() == Node.ELEMENT_NODE && nodeName.equals(curNode.getNodeName())) {
        return curNode;
return null;
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NodefindNode(NodeList nodes, String nodeName)
find Node 
Node result = null;
for (int i = 0; i < nodes.getLength(); ++i)
    if (nodes.item(i).getNodeName().equals(nodeName))
        result = nodes.item(i);
return result;
NodefindNode(String id, NodeList orgs)
find Node 
Node org = null;
for (int i = 0; i < orgs.getLength(); i++) {
    NamedNodeMap attr = orgs.item(i).getAttributes();
    if (attr.getNamedItem("xml:id") == null) {
        continue;
    if (attr.getNamedItem("xml:id").getNodeValue().equals(id)) {
        org = orgs.item(i);
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NodefindNodeByName(NodeList nodeList, String name)
find Node By Name 
Node ret = null;
for (int i = 0; i < nodeList.getLength(); i++) {
    Node thisNode = (Node) nodeList.item(i);
    String nodeName = thisNode.getNodeName();
    String localName = thisNode.getLocalName();
    if (thisNode.getLocalName().equals(name)) {
        ret = thisNode;
        break;
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voidgetAllNodes(NodeList nodeList, List nodes)
get All Nodes 
int length = nodeList.getLength();
if (length == 0) {
    return;
for (int i = 0; i < length; i++) {
    Node node = nodeList.item(i);
    nodes.add(node);
    getAllNodes(node.getChildNodes(), nodes);
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Node[]getArray(NodeList nodeList)
Returns an array version of the passed NodeList. 
Node[] nodes = new Node[nodeList.getLength()];
for (int i = 0; i < nodeList.getLength(); i++)
    nodes[i] = nodeList.item(i);
return nodes;
Node[]getArray(NodeList nodeList)
get Array 
Node nodes[] = new Node[nodeList.getLength()];
for (int i = 0; i < nodeList.getLength(); i++) {
    nodes[i] = nodeList.item(i);
return nodes;
StringgetContent(NodeList nl, String path)
Retrieve the text content of a specified tag 
if ((nl == null) || (path == null))
    return null;
if (nl.getLength() == 0)
    return null;
String[] names = path.split("/");
if (names.length == 0)
    return null;
return getContent(nl, names, 0);
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