Java Utililty Methods XML Element Find

List of utility methods to do XML Element Find

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Description

The list of methods to do XML Element Find are organized into topic(s).

Method

StringfindElementAsString(final Element e, final String find)
Find an element, return as a string. 
final Element el = findElement(e, find);
if (el == null) {
    return null;
for (Node child = el.getFirstChild(); child != null; child = child.getNextSibling()) {
    if (!(child instanceof Text)) {
        continue;
    return child.getNodeValue();
return null;
ElementfindElementWithId(String id, Element root)
fast search for Element with id attribute 
if (id.equals(root.getAttribute("id")))
    return root;
NodeList list = root.getChildNodes();
int len = list.getLength();
for (int i = 0; i < len; i++) {
    Node n = list.item(i);
    if (n.getNodeType() != Node.ELEMENT_NODE)
        continue;
...
ListfindNodesByType(Element topElm, int type)
Finds element in DOM tree 
List<Node> retvals = new ArrayList<Node>();
if (topElm == null)
    throw new IllegalArgumentException("topElm cannot be null");
synchronized (topElm.getOwnerDocument()) {
    Stack<Node> stack = new Stack<Node>();
    stack.push(topElm);
    while (!stack.isEmpty()) {
        Node curElm = stack.pop();
...
StringfindNodeValue(Element firstElement, String name)
find Node Value 
String nodeValue = null;
NodeList firstNameList = firstElement.getElementsByTagName(name);
Element firstNameElement = (Element) firstNameList.item(0);
NodeList textFNList = firstNameElement.getChildNodes();
if (textFNList.getLength() > 0) {
    nodeValue = (textFNList.item(0)).getNodeValue();
return nodeValue;
...
ListgetAllElements(Element config, String elementName)
returns all the element with the given name 
List<Element> out = new ArrayList<Element>();
NodeList children = config.getChildNodes();
for (int counter = 0; counter < children.getLength(); counter++) {
    if (children.item(counter) instanceof Element) {
        Element el = (Element) children.item(counter);
        if (el.getTagName().equals(elementName)) {
            out.add(el);
return out;
NodeListgetAllElements(Element element)
get All Elements 
return element.getElementsByTagName("*");
Element[]getAllElements(Node context)
get All Elements 
return getAllElements(context, "*");
ListgetAllElementsByTagName(Element elem, String name)
Get a list of all child text Elements of given name directly under a given org.w3c.dom.Element . 
NodeList nodeList = elem.getElementsByTagName(name);
List<String> result = new ArrayList<String>();
for (int i = 0; i < nodeList.getLength(); ++i) {
    NodeList children = nodeList.item(i).getChildNodes();
    if (children.getLength() == 0 || children.item(0).getNodeType() != Node.TEXT_NODE) {
        continue;
    result.add(children.item(0).getNodeValue());
...
ListgetAllLeaveValues(Element element)
get All Leave Values 
if (element == null) {
    return null;
List<String> ret = new LinkedList<String>();
if (isLeaf(element)) {
    ret.add(element.getTextContent());
} else {
    NodeList nl = element.getChildNodes();
...
String[]getAllNodeNames(Element ele)
get All Node Names 
NamedNodeMap atts = ele.getAttributes();
int nbrAtts = atts == null ? 0 : atts.getLength();
int nbrChildren = 0;
Set<String> childNames = null;
NodeList children = ele.getChildNodes();
if (children != null) {
    nbrChildren = children.getLength();
    childNames = new HashSet<String>();
...