Package org.dspace.app.util

Class XMLUtils

java.lang.Object
org.dspace.app.util.XMLUtils
public class XMLUtils extends Object
Simple class to read information from small XML using DOM manipulation
Author:
Andrea Bollini

  • Method Details

    • getElementList

      public static List<Element> getElementList(Element dataRoot, String name)
      Parameters:
      dataRoot - the starting node
      name - the tag name of the child element to find.
      Returns:
      the list of all DOM Element with the provided name direct child of the starting node

    • getElementAttribute

      public static String getElementAttribute(Element dataRoot, String name, String attr)
      Parameters:
      dataRoot - the starting node
      name - the name of the sub element
      attr - the attribute to get
      Returns:
      the value of the attribute for the sub element with the specified name in the starting node

    • getElementValue

      public static String getElementValue(Element dataRoot, String name)
      Parameters:
      dataRoot - the starting node
      name - the name of the sub element
      Returns:
      the text content of the sub element with the specified name in the starting node

    • getSingleElement

      public static Element getSingleElement(Element dataRoot, String name)
      Return the first element child with the specified name
      Parameters:
      dataRoot - the starting node
      name - the name of sub element to look for
      Returns:
      the first child element or null if no present

    • getElementValueList

      public static List<String> getElementValueList(Element rootElement, String subElementName)
      Parameters:
      rootElement - the starting node
      subElementName - the tag name of the child element to find.
      Returns:
      a list of string including all the text contents of the sub element with the specified name. If there are not sub element with the supplied name the method will return null

    • getElementValueArrayList

      public static List<String[]> getElementValueArrayList(Element rootElement, String subElementName, String... fieldsName)
      root/subElement[]/field1, field2, fieldN
      Parameters:
      rootElement - the starting node
      subElementName - the name of the sub element to work on
      fieldsName - the names of the sub-sub-elements from which get the text content
      Returns:
      a list of array strings. The length of the array is equals to the number of fields required. For any fields the first textual value found in the sub element is used, null if no value is present