org.springframework.util.xml
Class DomUtils

java.lang.Object
  org.springframework.util.xml.DomUtils

public abstract class DomUtils
extends Object

Convenience methods for working with the DOM API, in particular for working with DOM Nodes and DOM Elements.

Since:

1.2

Author:

Juergen Hoeller

See Also:

Node, Element

Constructor Summary

DomUtils()

Method Summary

static List	getChildElementsByTagName(Element ele, String childEleName) Retrieve all child elements of the given DOM element that match the given element name.
static String	getTextValue(Element valueEle) Extract the text value from the given DOM element, ignoring XML comments.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Constructor Detail

DomUtils

public DomUtils()

Method Detail

getChildElementsByTagName

public static List getChildElementsByTagName(Element ele,
                                             String childEleName)

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 getElementsByTagName method).

Parameters:

ele - the DOM element to analyze

childEleName - the child element name to look for

Returns:

a List of child org.w3c.dom.Element instances

See Also:

Element, Element.getElementsByTagName(java.lang.String)

getTextValue

public static String getTextValue(Element valueEle)

Extract the text value from the given DOM element, ignoring XML comments.

Appends all CharacterData nodes and EntityReference nodes into a single String value, excluding Comment nodes.

See Also:

CharacterData, EntityReference, Comment