Retutns the value of the named attribute of the given element. : DOM Attribute « XML « Java






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Retutns the value of the named attribute of the given element.

  
import org.w3c.dom.Attr;
import org.w3c.dom.Element;

public class Utils {


  /**
   * <p>Retutns the value of the named attribute of the given
   * element. If there is no such attribute, returns null.</p>
   *
   * @param element element
   * @param name name
   * @return value
   */
  public static String getAttributeValue(Element element, String name)
  {
      Attr attribute = element.getAttributeNode(name);
      if(attribute == null) {
          return null;
      }
      else {
          return attribute.getValue();
      }
  }

}








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