Java Utililty Methods XML Attribute Get

List of utility methods to do XML Attribute Get

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Description

The list of methods to do XML Attribute Get are organized into topic(s).

Method

booleangetAttributeAsBoolean(Element element, String attrName, boolean defValue)
get Attribute As Boolean 
String value = element.getAttribute(attrName);
try {
    if ((value != null) && (value.length() > 0)) {
        return Boolean.valueOf(value).booleanValue();
} catch (Exception ex) {
return defValue;
...
booleangetAttributeAsBoolean(Element element, String attrName, boolean defValue)
Get the value of the given attribute of this Element as a boolean value. 
String value = element.getAttribute(attrName);
try {
    if ((value != null) && (value.length() > 0)) {
        return Boolean.valueOf(value).booleanValue();
} catch (Exception ex) {
return defValue;
...
booleangetAttributeAsBoolean(Element element, String name)
get Attribute As Boolean 
String value = element.getAttribute(name);
if (value == null) {
    return false;
return Boolean.parseBoolean(value);
booleangetAttributeAsBoolean(NamedNodeMap map, String name)
Get a named value from the NamedNodeMap as a boolean. 
boolean value = false;
try {
    value = (getAttribute(map, name)).equals("1");
} catch (Exception e) {
return value;
IntegergetAttributeAsInteger(Element element, String attrName, Integer defValue)
get Attribute As Integer 
try {
    return Integer.valueOf(element.getAttribute(attrName));
} catch (Exception ex) {
return defValue;
LonggetAttributeAsLong(Element element, String attrName, Long defValue)
Get the value of the given attribute of this Element as a java.lang.Long value. 
try {
    return Long.valueOf(element.getAttribute(attrName));
} catch (Exception ex) {
return defValue;
StringgetAttributeAsString(NamedNodeMap attributes, String name)
Get an attribute's value and return an empty string, of the attribute is not specified 
Attr attribute;
String value = ""; 
attribute = (Attr) attributes.getNamedItem(name);
if (attribute != null) {
    value = attribute.getValue();
return value;
StringgetAttributeAsString(XMLStreamReader reader, String name)
Returns the string value of an attribute. 
return reader.getAttributeValue(null, name);
StringgetAttributeAsURIString(XMLStreamReader reader, String name)
TUSCANY-242 Returns the URI value of an attribute as a string and first applies the URI whitespace processing as defined in section 4.3.6 of XML Schema Part2: Datatypes [http://www.w3.org/TR/xmlschema-2/#rf-facets]. 
String uri = reader.getAttributeValue(null, name);
if (uri != null) {
    uri = uri.replace('\t', ' ');
    uri = uri.replace('\n', ' ');
    uri = uri.replace('\r', ' ');
    uri = uri.trim();
    StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder(uri.length());
    boolean spaceFound = false;
...
booleangetAttributeBoolean(Element aElement, String aAttributeName)
Returns the boolean value of the specified attribute from the given Element. 
return "true".equals(getAttribute(aElement, aAttributeName));