Create New Element And Set Attribute : DOM Element « XML « Java Tutorial

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import org.w3c.dom.Document;
import org.w3c.dom.Element;
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 createNewElementAndSetAndAttribute(Document document,
      Element parent, String childElement, String childValue,
      String attributeName, String attributeValue) {
    Element child = createNewElementAndSet(document, parent, childElement,
        childValue);
    child.setAttribute(attributeName, attributeValue);
    return child;
  }
  public static Element createNewElementAndSet(Document document,
      Element parent, String childElement, String childValue) {
    Element child = (Element) document.createElement(childElement);
    parent.appendChild(child);
    child.setNodeValue(childValue);
    child.appendChild(document.createTextNode(childValue));
    return child;
  }
}