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Find Container With Attribute Value Or Create

  
import java.text.ParseException;
import java.text.SimpleDateFormat;
import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.Date;
import java.util.Iterator;

import org.w3c.dom.Document;
import org.w3c.dom.Element;
import org.w3c.dom.Node;
import org.w3c.dom.NodeList;

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/**
 * Various XML utilities.
 * 
 * @author simonjsmith, ksim
 * @version 1.1 - ksim - March 6th, 2007 - Added functions regarding streaming
 * @version 1.2 - ksim - March 10th, 2007 - Added functions regarding DOM
 *          manipulation
 */
public class Utils {
  public static Element findContainerWithAttributeValueElseCreate(
      Document document, Element parent, String element,
      String attributeName, String attributeValue) {

    NodeList nl = parent.getElementsByTagName(element);
    Element e;
    for (int i = 0; i < nl.getLength(); i++) {
      e = (Element) nl.item(i);
      if (e.getAttribute(attributeName).equals(attributeValue)) {
        return e;
      }
    }

    e = document.createElement(element);
    parent.appendChild(e);
    e.setAttribute(attributeName, attributeValue);

    return e;
  }

}

   
    
  








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