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import java.text.ParseException; import java.text.SimpleDateFormat; import java.util.Date; import org.w3c.dom.Document; import org.w3c.dom.Element; import org.w3c.dom.Node; import org.w3c.dom.NodeList; /******************************************************************************* * Copyright (C) 2007 Google Inc. * * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not * use this file except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of * the License at * * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 * * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT * WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the * License for the specific language governing permissions and limitations under * the License. ******************************************************************************/ /** * 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 Date getElementDateValue(Document document, Element parent, String string) { return parseDate(getElementStringValue(document, parent, string)); } private static SimpleDateFormat sdf = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ss"); public static Date parseDate(String date) { try { return sdf.parse(date); } catch (ParseException e) { e.printStackTrace(); } return null; } public static String getElementStringValue(Document document, Element parent, String element) { NodeList nl = parent.getElementsByTagName(element); if (nl.getLength() == 0) { return ""; } Node n = nl.item(0).getFirstChild(); if (n == null) { return ""; } return n.getNodeValue(); } }