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import java.text.ParseException;
import java.text.SimpleDateFormat;
import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.Date;
import java.util.Iterator;

import org.w3c.dom.Document;
import org.w3c.dom.Element;
import org.w3c.dom.Node;
import org.w3c.dom.NodeList;

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 * 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
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 * 
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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 findElementElseCreateAndAttribute(Document document, Element parent, String element,
            String attributeName, String attributeValue) {
        NodeList nl = parent.getElementsByTagName(element);
        Element e = null;

        if (nl.getLength() == 0) {
            parent.appendChild(document.createElement(element));
            e = (Element) parent.getElementsByTagName(element).item(0);
            e.setAttribute(attributeName, attributeValue);
        }

        return e;
    }

}