Java tutorial
//package com.java2s; /* Copyright (C) 2009-2013 Bengt Martensson. This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. This program 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 General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program. If not, see http://www.gnu.org/licenses/. */ import java.util.HashMap; import org.w3c.dom.Element; import org.w3c.dom.NodeList; public class Main { public static HashMap<String, Element> createIndex(Element root, String tagName, String idName) { NodeList nodes = root.getElementsByTagName(tagName); HashMap<String, Element> index = new HashMap<>(nodes.getLength()); for (int i = 0; i < nodes.getLength(); i++) { Element el = (Element) nodes.item(i); String key = el.getAttribute(idName); if (!key.isEmpty()) index.put(key, el); } return index; } }