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Recursive method to find a given attribute value

  
import javax.xml.namespace.QName;

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

public class Utils {

  /**
   * Recursive method to find a given attribute value
   */
  public static String recursiveGetAttributeValue(Element element, String attributeName) {
      String answer = null;
      try {
          answer = element.getAttribute(attributeName);
      } catch (Exception e) {
    
      }
      if (answer == null || answer.length() == 0) {
          Node parentNode = element.getParentNode();
          if (parentNode instanceof Element) {
              return recursiveGetAttributeValue((Element) parentNode, attributeName);
          }
      }
      return answer;
  }
}








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