Java XPath Get getNameBasedXPath(Node n, boolean includeCurrent)

Description

get Name Based X Path

License

Apache License

Declaration

public static String getNameBasedXPath(Node n, boolean includeCurrent) 

Method Source Code

//package com.java2s;
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import java.util.Stack;
import org.w3c.dom.Element;
import org.w3c.dom.Node;

public class Main {
    public static String getNameBasedXPath(Node n, boolean includeCurrent) {
        Node parent = null;
        Stack<Node> hierarchy = new Stack<Node>();

        if (includeCurrent) {
            hierarchy.push(n);
        }
        parent = n.getParentNode();
        while (null != parent && parent.getNodeType() != Node.DOCUMENT_NODE) {
            hierarchy.push(parent);
            parent = parent.getParentNode();
        }

        // construct xpath
        StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
        Node node = null;
        while (!hierarchy.isEmpty() && null != (node = hierarchy.pop())) {
            // only consider elements
            if (node.getNodeType() == Node.ELEMENT_NODE) {
                Element e = (Element) node;

                // Bung in a slash and the element name
                sb.append("/");
                sb.append(node.getLocalName());

                if (node.hasAttributes()) {
                    // see if the element has a name attribute
                    if (e.hasAttribute("name")) {
                        // name attribute found - use that
                        sb.append("[@name='").append(e.getAttribute("name")).append("']");
                    }
                }
            }
        }

        // return buffer
        return sb.toString();
    }
}

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