Java XML Element Get by Attribute getElementWithAttribute(String tagName, String attribute, String attributeValue, Element searchIn)

Description

get Element With Attribute

License

Open Source License

Declaration

public static Element getElementWithAttribute(String tagName, String attribute, String attributeValue,
        Element searchIn) 

Method Source Code

//package com.java2s;

import java.util.ArrayList;

import org.w3c.dom.Element;
import org.w3c.dom.Node;
import org.w3c.dom.NodeList;

public class Main {
    /**/*from w w  w  .  java  2  s.c  o  m*/
     */
    public static Element getElementWithAttribute(String tagName, String attribute, String attributeValue,
            Element searchIn) {
        ArrayList<Element> list = getElementsByTag(tagName, searchIn);
        for (Element e : list) {
            if (attributeValue.equals(e.getAttribute(attribute))) {
                return e;
            }
        }
        return null;
    }

    /**
     */
    public static ArrayList<Element> getElementsByTag(String tag, Element searchIn) {
        NodeList list = searchIn.getElementsByTagName(tag);
        ArrayList<Element> toReturn = new ArrayList<Element>();
        for (int i = 0; i < list.getLength(); i++) {
            Node n = list.item(i);
            if (!(n instanceof Element)) {
                continue;
            }
            toReturn.add((Element) n);
        }
        return toReturn;
    }
}

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