Java XML NodeList to Element List toElements(NodeList nodes)

Description

format XML into human readable form

License

Apache License

Parameter

Parameter	Description
document	a parameter
root	a parameter
tab	private static void formatXML(Document document, Element root, String tab) { NodeList children = root.getChildNodes(); // save the nodes in the array first Node[] nodes = new Node[children.getLength()]; for (int i = 0; i < children.getLength(); i++) nodes[i] = children.item(i); // insert identations for (int i = 0; i < nodes.length; i++) { root.insertBefore(document.createTextNode("\n" + tab), nodes[i]); if (nodes[i] instanceof Element) formatXML(document, (Element) nodes[i], " " + tab); } root.appendChild(document.createTextNode("\n" + tab.substring(0, tab.length() - 2))); }

Declaration

public static List<Element> toElements(NodeList nodes) 

Method Source Code

//package com.java2s;
//License from project: Apache License 

import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.List;

import org.w3c.dom.Element;

import org.w3c.dom.NodeList;

public class Main {
    /**/*  w w  w. j av a2  s. c o m*/
     * format XML into human readable form
     * @param document
     * @param root
     * @param tab
     *
    private static void formatXML(Document document, Element root, String tab) {
       NodeList children = root.getChildNodes();
       // save the nodes in the array first
       Node[] nodes = new Node[children.getLength()];
       for (int i = 0; i < children.getLength(); i++)
     nodes[i] = children.item(i);
       // insert identations
       for (int i = 0; i < nodes.length; i++) {
     root.insertBefore(document.createTextNode("\n" + tab), nodes[i]);
     if (nodes[i] instanceof Element)
    formatXML(document, (Element) nodes[i], "  " + tab);
       }
       root.appendChild(document.createTextNode("\n"
    + tab.substring(0, tab.length() - 2)));
    }
    */

    public static List<Element> toElements(NodeList nodes) {
        List<Element> list = new ArrayList<Element>();
        for (int i = 0; i < nodes.getLength(); i++)
            if (nodes.item(i) instanceof Element)
                list.add((Element) nodes.item(i));
        return list;
    }
}

Related

1. toElementList(NodeList list)
2. toElementList(NodeList nds)
3. toElementList(NodeList nodeList)
4. toElementList(NodeList nodeList)
5. toElements(NodeList nl)
6. toElements(NodeList nodes, String filter)