Java tutorial
//package com.java2s; /** * Copyright (c) 2012 Reficio (TM) - Reestablish your software! All Rights Reserved. * * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more * contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed with * this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership. * The ASF licenses this file to You 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. */ import org.w3c.dom.Document; import org.w3c.dom.Element; import org.w3c.dom.Node; import org.w3c.dom.NodeList; public class Main { public static Element fetchOrCreateElement(Document doc, Node parent, String tagName) { NodeList nl = parent.getChildNodes(); if (nl != null && nl.getLength() > 0) { for (int i = 0; i < nl.getLength(); ++i) { Node n = nl.item(i); if (n instanceof Element) { Element e = (Element) n; if (((Element) n).getTagName().equals(tagName)) { return e; } } } } // if get to here, not found element with this tagName, so create it return createElement(doc, parent, tagName); } public static Element createElement(Document doc, Node parent, String tagName) { Element e = doc.createElement(tagName); parent.appendChild(e); return e; } }