org.jasig.portal.utils
Class XML

java.lang.Object
  org.jasig.portal.utils.XML

public class XML
extends Object

This utility provides useful XML helper methods.

Version:

$Revision: 21884 $

Author:

Ken Weiner, kweiner@unicon.net

Constructor Summary

XML()

Method Summary

static Document	cloneDocument(Document olddoc) This is only being kept around for backward compatibility.
static void	dom2sax(Node dom, ContentHandler sax) Outputs a dom document into a sax stream.
static String	getChildElementText(Element e, String childElementName) Gets the text value of a child Element.
static String	getElementText(Element e) Gets the text value of an Element.
static String	serializeNode(Node node) Gets the contents of an XML Document or Element as a nicely formatted string.
static String	serializeNode(Node node, OutputFormat format) Gets the contents of an XML Document or Element as a formatted string.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Constructor Detail

XML

public XML()

Method Detail

getElementText

public static String getElementText(Element e)

Gets the text value of an Element. For example, if an element nameElement looks like this: Fred, then getElementText(nameElement) would return "Fred". An empty String is returned in the case that there is no text under the element.

Parameters:

e - the Element with a text value

Returns:

the the text value of the element

getChildElementText

public static String getChildElementText(Element e,
                                         String childElementName)

Gets the text value of a child Element. For example, if an element nameElement looks like this: FredFlinstone, then getChildElementText(nameElement, "first") would return "Fred". An empty String is returned in the case that there is no text under the child Element.

Parameters:

e - the Element to search under

childElementName - the name of the child Element

Returns:

the text value of the child element

serializeNode

public static String serializeNode(Node node)

Gets the contents of an XML Document or Element as a nicely formatted string. This method is useful for debugging.

Parameters:

node - the Node to print; must be of type Document or Element

Returns:

a nicely formatted String suitable for printing

serializeNode

public static String serializeNode(Node node,
                                   OutputFormat format)

Gets the contents of an XML Document or Element as a formatted string. This method is useful for debugging.

Parameters:

node - the Node to print; must be of type Document or Element

format - controls the formatting of the string

Returns:

a nicely formatted String suitable for printing

cloneDocument

public static Document cloneDocument(Document olddoc)

This is only being kept around for backward compatibility. Callers should now be using Document.cloneNode(true).

Parameters:

olddoc - the original document

Returns:

a clone of the original document with preserved ID tables

dom2sax

public static void dom2sax(Node dom,
                           ContentHandler sax)
                    throws TransformerConfigurationException,
                           TransformerException

Outputs a dom document into a sax stream.

Parameters:

dom - a dom Node value

sax - a sax ContentHandler value

Throws:

TransformerConfigurationException

TransformerException