Java tutorial
//package com.java2s; /* * GeoTools - The Open Source Java GIS Toolkit * http://geotools.org * * (C) 2005-2011, Open Source Geospatial Foundation (OSGeo) * * This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or * modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public * License as published by the Free Software Foundation; * version 2.1 of the License. * * This library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU * Lesser General Public License for more details. */ import java.util.ArrayList; import java.util.List; public class Main { /** * Split X-path string in to string steps, ignoring / characters inside [] * * @param s x-path string * @return list of string steps */ private static List<String> splitPath(String s) { ArrayList<String> parts = new ArrayList<String>(); StringBuffer b = new StringBuffer(); int insideIndex = 0; for (int pos = 0; pos < s.length(); pos++) { if (s.charAt(pos) == '/' && insideIndex == 0) { parts.add(b.toString()); b = new StringBuffer(); } else { if (s.charAt(pos) == '[') { insideIndex++; } else if (s.charAt(pos) == ']') { insideIndex--; } b.append(s.charAt(pos)); } } parts.add(b.toString()); return parts; } }