Java tutorial
//package com.java2s; /* Linguine Maps Programmatic Visualization Library Copyright (C) 2005 Pavel Simakov http://www.softwaresecretweapons.com This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2.1 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. This library 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 Lesser General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public License along with this library; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA */ import org.w3c.dom.Document; import org.w3c.dom.Node; public class Main { public static void assertRootElement(Document doc, String rootElementName) { assertRootElement(doc, rootElementName, null); } public static void assertRootElement(Document doc, String rootElementName, String namespaceURI) { if (!nodeHasNameNamespace(doc.getDocumentElement(), rootElementName, namespaceURI)) { throw new IllegalArgumentException("Error parsing XML document, must have root element with name \"" + rootElementName + "\", found " + doc.getDocumentElement().getNodeName()); } } public static boolean nodeHasNameNamespace(Node node, String name, String namespaceURI) { String localName = node.getNodeName(); String pre = node.getPrefix(); if (pre != null) { localName = localName.substring(pre.length() + 1); } if (namespaceURI != null) { if (!namespaceURI.equals(node.getNamespaceURI())) { return false; } } return name.equals(localName); } }