/**
* EasyBeans
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* Contact: easybeans@ow2.org
*
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* Lesser General Public License for more details.
*
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* USA
*
* --------------------------------------------------------------------------
* $Id: XMLUtils.java 2049 2007-11-20 14:32:56Z benoitf $
* --------------------------------------------------------------------------
*/
import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.List;
import java.util.Properties;
import org.w3c.dom.Element;
import org.w3c.dom.NamedNodeMap;
import org.w3c.dom.Node;
import org.w3c.dom.NodeList;
/**
* Class with some useful methods on XML document.
*/
public final class XMLUtils {
/**
* Returns the value of the child node with the given name.
* @param base the element from where to search.
* @param name of the element to get.
* @return the value of this element.
*/
public static String getChildStringValueForElement(final Element base, final String name) {
String value = null;
NodeList nodeList = base.getChildNodes();
if (nodeList.getLength() > 0) {
int length = nodeList.getLength();
for (int i = 0; i < length; i++) {
Node node = nodeList.item(i);
// Get an element, create an instance of the element
if (Node.ELEMENT_NODE == node.getNodeType()) {
if (name.equals(node.getNodeName())) {
// Get value of this child
Node elNode = ((Element) node).getFirstChild();
if (elNode != null) {
value = elNode.getNodeValue();
break;
}
}
}
}
}
return value;
}
}
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