Java XML Element Get by Name getElementDateValue(Document document, Element parent, String string)

Description

get Element Date Value

License

Apache License

Declaration

public static Date getElementDateValue(Document document, Element parent, String string) 

Method Source Code

//package com.java2s;
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import java.text.ParseException;
import java.text.SimpleDateFormat;

import java.util.Date;

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

public class Main {
    private static SimpleDateFormat sdf = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ss");

    public static Date getElementDateValue(Document document, Element parent, String string) {
        return parseDate(getElementStringValue(document, parent, string));
    }

    public static Date parseDate(String date) {
        try {
            return sdf.parse(date);
        } catch (ParseException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }
        return null;
    }

    public static String getElementStringValue(Document document, Element parent, String element) {
        NodeList nl = parent.getElementsByTagName(element);
        if (nl.getLength() == 0) {
            return "";
        }

        Node n = nl.item(0).getFirstChild();
        if (n == null) {
            return "";
        }

        return n.getNodeValue();
    }
}

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