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Convenience methods for working with the DOM API
     
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import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.List;

import org.w3c.dom.CharacterData;
import org.w3c.dom.Comment;
import org.w3c.dom.Element;
import org.w3c.dom.EntityReference;
import org.w3c.dom.Node;
import org.w3c.dom.NodeList;

/**
 * Convenience methods for working with the DOM API,
 * in particular for working with DOM Nodes and DOM Elements.
 *
 @author Juergen Hoeller
 @author Rob Harrop
 @author Costin Leau
 @since 1.2
 @see org.w3c.dom.Node
 @see org.w3c.dom.Element
 */
public abstract class DomUtils {

  /**
   * Retrieve all child elements of the given DOM element that match
   * the given element name. Only look at the direct child level of the
   * given element; do not go into further depth (in contrast to the
   * DOM API's <code>getElementsByTagName</code> method).
   @param ele the DOM element to analyze
   @param childEleName the child element name to look for
   @return a List of child <code>org.w3c.dom.Element</code> instances
   @see org.w3c.dom.Element
   @see org.w3c.dom.Element#getElementsByTagName
   */
  public static List getChildElementsByTagName(Element ele, String childEleName) {
    NodeList nl = ele.getChildNodes();
    List childEles = new ArrayList();
    for (int i = 0; i < nl.getLength(); i++) {
      Node node = nl.item(i);
      if (node instanceof Element && nodeNameEquals(node, childEleName)) {
        childEles.add(node);
      }
    }
    return childEles;
  }

  /**
   * Utility method that returns the first child element
   * identified by its name.
   @param ele the DOM element to analyze
   @param childEleName the child element name to look for
   @return the <code>org.w3c.dom.Element</code> instance,
   * or <code>null</code> if none found
   */
  public static Element getChildElementByTagName(Element ele, String childEleName) {
    NodeList nl = ele.getChildNodes();
    for (int i = 0; i < nl.getLength(); i++) {
      Node node = nl.item(i);
      if (node instanceof Element && nodeNameEquals(node, childEleName)) {
        return (Elementnode;
      }
    }
    return null;
  }

  /**
   * Utility method that returns the first child element value
   * identified by its name.
   @param ele the DOM element to analyze
   @param childEleName the child element name to look for
   @return the extracted text value,
   * or <code>null</code> if no child element found
   */
  public static String getChildElementValueByTagName(Element ele, String childEleName) {
    Element child = getChildElementByTagName(ele, childEleName);
    return (child != null ? getTextValue(childnull);
  }

  /**
   * Namespace-aware equals comparison. Returns <code>true</code> if either
   {@link Node#getLocalName} or {@link Node#getNodeName} equals <code>desiredName</code>,
   * otherwise returns <code>false</code>.
   */
  public static boolean nodeNameEquals(Node node, String desiredName) {
    return (desiredName.equals(node.getNodeName()) || desiredName.equals(node.getLocalName()));
  }

  /**
   * Extract the text value from the given DOM element, ignoring XML comments.
   * <p>Appends all CharacterData nodes and EntityReference nodes
   * into a single String value, excluding Comment nodes.
   @see CharacterData
   @see EntityReference
   @see Comment
   */
  public static String getTextValue(Element valueEle) {
    StringBuffer value = new StringBuffer();
    NodeList nl = valueEle.getChildNodes();
    for (int i = 0; i < nl.getLength(); i++) {
      Node item = nl.item(i);
      if ((item instanceof CharacterData && !(item instanceof Comment)) || item instanceof EntityReference) {
        value.append(item.getNodeValue());
      }
    }
    return value.toString();
  }

}

   
    
    
    
    
  














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