Java tutorial
//package com.java2s; /******************************************************************************* * Copyright (c) 2009, 2013 Andrew Gvozdev (Quoin Inc.). * All rights reserved. This program and the accompanying materials * are made available under the terms of the Eclipse Public License v1.0 * which accompanies this distribution, and is available at * http://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-v10.html * * Contributors: * Andrew Gvozdev (Quoin Inc.) *******************************************************************************/ import org.w3c.dom.NamedNodeMap; import org.w3c.dom.Node; public class Main { /** * Convenience method to retrieve an attribute of an element. * Note that calling element.getAttributes() once may be more efficient when pulling several attributes. * * @param element - element to retrieve the attribute from. * @param attr - attribute to get value. * @return attribute value or {@code null} */ public static String determineAttributeValue(Node element, String attr) { NamedNodeMap attributes = element.getAttributes(); return attributes != null ? determineNodeValue(attributes.getNamedItem(attr)) : null; } /** * Convenience method to retrieve value of a node. * @return node value or {@code null} */ public static String determineNodeValue(Node node) { return node != null ? node.getNodeValue() : null; } }