Java tutorial
//package com.java2s; import org.w3c.dom.Element; import org.w3c.dom.NodeList; public class Main { /** * Helper function for quickly retrieving an boolean value of a given * XML element. * @param ele The document element from which to pull the boolean value. * @param tagName The name of the node. * @return The boolean value of the given node in the element passed in. */ public static boolean getBooleanValue(Element ele, String tagName) { boolean boolVal = false; NodeList nl = ele.getElementsByTagName(tagName); if (nl != null && nl.getLength() > 0) { Element el = (Element) nl.item(0); boolVal = el.getFirstChild().getNodeValue().equals("true"); } return boolVal; } /** * Helper function for quickly retrieving an boolean value of a given * XML element, with a default initialization value passed in a parameter. * @param ele The document element from which to pull the boolean value. * @param tagName The name of the node. * @param defaultValue The default value of the node if it's value can't be processed. * @return The boolean value of the given node in the element passed in. */ public static boolean getBooleanValue(Element ele, String tagName, boolean defaultValue) { boolean boolVal = defaultValue; NodeList nl = ele.getElementsByTagName(tagName); if (nl != null && nl.getLength() > 0) { Element el = (Element) nl.item(0); if (el.getFirstChild().getNodeValue() != null) { boolVal = "true".equals(el.getFirstChild().getNodeValue()); } else { boolVal = defaultValue; } } return boolVal; } }