Java XML Element Create createElement(final Document document, final String elementName)

Description

create Element

License

Apache License

Declaration

private static Element createElement(final Document document, final String elementName) 

Method Source Code

//package com.java2s;
/**// www. ja v a  2  s . c o m
 *  Copyright 2012 Sven Ewald
 *
 *  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.
 */

import org.w3c.dom.Document;
import org.w3c.dom.Element;

public class Main {
    private static Element createElement(final Document document, final String elementName) {
        final String prefix = getPrefixOfQName(elementName);// .replaceAll("(:.*)|([^:])*", "");
        final String namespaceURI = prefix.isEmpty() ? null : document.lookupNamespaceURI(prefix);

        final Element element;
        if (namespaceURI == null) {
            element = document.createElement(elementName);
        } else {
            element = document.createElementNS(namespaceURI, elementName);
        }

        return element;
    }

    /**
     * @param elementName
     * @return
     */
    private static String getPrefixOfQName(final String elementName) {
        if (elementName.contains(":")) {
            return elementName.replaceAll(":.*", "");
        }
        return "";
    }
}

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