Java XML Element Get by ID getElementById(Document dom, String id)

Description

get Element By Id

License

Open Source License

Declaration

public static Element getElementById(Document dom, String id) 

Method Source Code

//package com.java2s;
/*******************************************************************************
 * Copyright (c) 2004, 2007 IBM Corporation and others.
 * All rights reserved. This program and the accompanying materials
 * are made available under the terms of the Eclipse Public License v1.0
 * which accompanies this distribution, and is available at
 * http://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-v10.html
 *
 * Contributors:/* w  ww  .jav a2  s. c o m*/
 *     IBM Corporation - initial API and implementation
 *******************************************************************************/

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

import org.w3c.dom.NodeList;

public class Main {
    public static Element getElementById(Document dom, String id, String localElementName) {

        NodeList children = dom.getElementsByTagNameNS("*", localElementName); //$NON-NLS-1$
        for (int i = 0; i < children.getLength(); i++) {
            Element element = (Element) children.item(i);
            if (element.getAttribute("id").equals(id)) //$NON-NLS-1$
                return element;
        }
        // non found.
        return null;

    }

    public static Element getElementById(Document dom, String id) {
        return getElementById(dom, id, "*"); //$NON-NLS-1$
    }
}

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