Java XML Element Get by Attribute getElementByAttribute(Element root, String tagname, String attribute, String att_value)

Description

get Element By Attribute

License

Apache License

Declaration

@Deprecated
public static Element getElementByAttribute(Element root, String tagname, String attribute, String att_value) 

Method Source Code

//package com.java2s;
/*/*from w w w  .  java2 s .  co  m*/
 * @(#)$Id: XMLCommon.java 116 2008-10-30 06:12:51Z unsaved $
 *
 * Copyright 2008 by the JWebMail Development Team and Sebastian Schaffert.
 *
 * 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.Element;

import org.w3c.dom.NodeList;

public class Main {
    /**
     * @deprecated use getXPath instead!
     */
    @Deprecated
    public static Element getElementByAttribute(Element root, String tagname, String attribute, String att_value) {
        NodeList nl = root.getElementsByTagName(tagname);
        for (int i = 0; i < nl.getLength(); i++) {
            Element elem = (Element) nl.item(i);
            if (elem.getAttribute(attribute).equals(att_value)) {
                return elem;
            }
        }
        return null;
    }
}

Related

1. findElementWithAttributes(Node node, String tagName, Collection attrs)
2. findElementWithNameAttribute(Element parent, String name)
3. findElementWithUniqueAttribute(Element root, String elementName, String attribute, String attributeValue)
4. findNode(Node node, String attr, String value)
5. findNodeByAttributeValue(NodeList nodeList, String attributeName, String attributeValue)
6. getElementByAttribute(String attr, String value, Element root)
7. getElementByAttributeValue(List elements, String attName, String attValue)
8. getElementByAttributeValue(Node start, String tagName, String attrName, String attrValue)
9. getElementIntAttribute(Element e, String whichAttribute)