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Get the W3C Node instance associated with the XPath selection supplied

      
/*
 Milyn - Copyright (C) 2006

 This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
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 but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
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import org.w3c.dom.Attr;
import org.w3c.dom.DOMException;
import org.w3c.dom.Document;
import org.w3c.dom.Node;
import org.w3c.dom.NodeList;
import org.xml.sax.EntityResolver;
import org.xml.sax.ErrorHandler;
import org.xml.sax.InputSource;
import org.xml.sax.SAXException;
import org.xml.sax.SAXParseException;


import javax.xml.XMLConstants;
import javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilder;
import javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilderFactory;
import javax.xml.parsers.FactoryConfigurationError;
import javax.xml.parsers.ParserConfigurationException;
import javax.xml.transform.OutputKeys;
import javax.xml.transform.Transformer;
import javax.xml.transform.TransformerFactory;
import javax.xml.transform.dom.DOMSource;
import javax.xml.transform.stream.StreamResult;
import javax.xml.transform.stream.StreamSource;
import javax.xml.validation.Schema;
import javax.xml.validation.SchemaFactory;
import javax.xml.xpath.XPath;
import javax.xml.xpath.XPathConstants;
import javax.xml.xpath.XPathExpressionException;
import javax.xml.xpath.XPathFactory;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.InputStream;
import java.io.InputStreamReader;
import java.io.Reader;
import java.io.StringReader;
import java.io.StringWriter;
import java.io.Writer;

/**
 * XMl utility methods.
 *
 * @author Tom Fennelly
 */

public class XmlUtil {

    /**
     * Document validation types.
     */
    public static enum VALIDATION_TYPE {
        /**
         * No validation.
         */
        NONE,
        /**
         * DTD based validation.
         */
        DTD,
        /**
         * XSD based validation.
         */
        XSD,
    }
    private static String ELEMENT_NAME_FUNC = "/name()";

    private static XPathFactory xPathFactory = XPathFactory.newInstance();
    /**
     * Get the W3C Node instance associated with the XPath selection supplied.
     *
     * @param node  The document node to be searched.
     * @param xpath The XPath String to be used in the selection.
     * @return The W3C Node instance at the specified location in the document,
     *         or null.
     */
    public static Node getNode(Node node, String xpath) {
        NodeList nodeList = getNodeList(node, xpath);

        if (nodeList == null || nodeList.getLength() == 0) {
            return null;
        } else {
            return nodeList.item(0);
        }
    }
    /**
     * Get the W3C NodeList instance associated with the XPath selection
     * supplied.
     *
     * @param node  The document node to be searched.
     * @param xpath The XPath String to be used in the selection.
     * @return The W3C NodeList instance at the specified location in the
     *         document, or null.
     */
    public static NodeList getNodeList(Node node, String xpath) {
        if (node == null) {
            throw new IllegalArgumentException(
                    "null 'document' arg in method call.");
        } else if (xpath == null) {
            throw new IllegalArgumentException(
                    "null 'xpath' arg in method call.");
        }
        try {
            XPath xpathEvaluater = xPathFactory.newXPath();

            if (xpath.endsWith(ELEMENT_NAME_FUNC)) {
                return (NodeList) xpathEvaluater.evaluate(xpath.substring(0,
                        xpath.length() - ELEMENT_NAME_FUNC.length()), node,
                        XPathConstants.NODESET);
            } else {
                return (NodeList) xpathEvaluater.evaluate(xpath, node,
                        XPathConstants.NODESET);
            }
        } catch (XPathExpressionException e) {
            throw new IllegalArgumentException("bad 'xpath' expression ["
                    + xpath + "].");
        }
    }

}

   
    
    
    
    
    
  








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