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 for a given element whether it can find an attribute which matches the * XPath expression supplied. Returns {@link Node} if exists. * * @param xPathExpression the xPathExpression (required) * @param element (required) * * @return the Node if discovered (null if not found) */ public static Node findFirstAttribute(String xPathExpression, Element element) { Node attr = null; try { XPathExpression expr = compiledExpressionCache.get(xPathExpression); if (expr == null) { expr = xpath.compile(xPathExpression); compiledExpressionCache.put(xPathExpression, expr); } attr = (Node) expr.evaluate(element, XPathConstants.NODE); } catch (XPathExpressionException e) { throw new IllegalArgumentException("Unable evaluate xpath expression", e); } return attr; } }