Java tutorial
//package com.java2s; /** * Copyright (C) 2010 http://flowas.net/ * * 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. * * You can write to flowas@gmial.com for more customer requirement. */ import java.util.HashMap; import java.util.Map; import javax.xml.xpath.XPath; import javax.xml.xpath.XPathConstants; import javax.xml.xpath.XPathExpression; import javax.xml.xpath.XPathExpressionException; import javax.xml.xpath.XPathFactory; import org.w3c.dom.Element; import org.w3c.dom.Node; public class Main { private static final Map<String, XPathExpression> compiledExpressionCache = new HashMap<String, XPathExpression>(); private static final XPath xpath = XPathFactory.newInstance().newXPath(); /** * Checks in under a given root element whether it can find a child element * which matches the XPath expression supplied. The {@link Element} must * exist. Returns {@link Element} if exists. * * Please note that the XPath parser used is NOT namespace aware. So if you * want to find a element <beans><sec:http> you need to use the following * XPath expression '/beans/http'. * * @param xPathExpression the xPathExpression (required) * @param root the parent DOM element (required) * * @return the Element if discovered (never null; an exception is thrown if * cannot be found) */ public static Element findRequiredElement(String xPathExpression, Element root) { // Assert.hasText(xPathExpression, "XPath expression required"); // Assert.notNull(root, "Root element required"); Element element = findFirstElement(xPathExpression, root); // Assert.notNull(element, "Unable to obtain required element '" + xPathExpression + "' from element '" + root + "'"); return element; } /** * Checks in under a given root element whether it can find a child element * which matches the XPath expression supplied. Returns {@link Element} if * exists. * * Please note that the XPath parser used is NOT namespace aware. So if you * want to find a element <beans><sec:http> you need to use the following * XPath expression '/beans/http'. * * @param xPathExpression the xPathExpression (required) * @param root the parent DOM element (required) * * @return the Element if discovered (null if not found) */ public static Element findFirstElement(String xPathExpression, Element root) { Node node = findNode(xPathExpression, root); if (node != null && node instanceof Element) { return (Element) node; } return null; } /** * Checks in under a given root element whether it can find a child node * which matches the XPath expression supplied. Returns {@link Node} if * exists. * * Please note that the XPath parser used is NOT namespace aware. So if you * want to find a element <beans><sec:http> you need to use the following * XPath expression '/beans/http'. * * @param xPathExpression the xPathExpression (required) * @param root the parent DOM element (required) * * @return the Node if discovered (null if not found) */ public static Node findNode(String xPathExpression, Element root) { if (xPathExpression == null || root == null || xPathExpression.length() == 0) { throw new IllegalArgumentException("Xpath expression and root element required"); } Node node = null; try { XPathExpression expr = compiledExpressionCache.get(xPathExpression); if (expr == null) { expr = xpath.compile(xPathExpression); compiledExpressionCache.put(xPathExpression, expr); } node = (Node) expr.evaluate(root, XPathConstants.NODE); } catch (XPathExpressionException e) { throw new IllegalArgumentException("Unable evaluate xpath expression", e); } return node; } }