irssibot.util
Class XMLUtil

java.lang.Object
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public class XMLUtil

extends java.lang.Object

Collection of util functions for manipulating and parsing XML documents.

Version:

$Name: $ $Revision: 1.3 $

Author:

Matti Dahlbom

Constructor Summary

XMLUtil()

Method Summary

static java.util.Vector	getListElements(org.w3c.dom.Node listNode, java.lang.String listElementName) Used to parse out elements of a list such as this:
static java.lang.String	getNodeAttribute(org.w3c.dom.Node node, java.lang.String name) Returns the value of a named node's attribute.
static int	getNodeIntAttribute(org.w3c.dom.Node node, java.lang.String name) Returns the value of a named node's attribute as an integer.
static java.lang.String	getTextChildValue(org.w3c.dom.Node node) Returns a text node contents below given node:

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Constructor Detail

XMLUtil

public XMLUtil()

Method Detail

getListElements

public static java.util.Vector getListElements(org.w3c.dom.Node listNode,
                                               java.lang.String listElementName)

Used to parse out elements of a list such as this:

 
    value1
    value2
    value3
 
 

For this example, called with Node pointing to element and "element" in listElementName.

Parameters:

listNode - pointer to list's "root" node

listElementName - name of list element

Returns:

Vector of list elements

getTextChildValue

public static java.lang.String getTextChildValue(org.w3c.dom.Node node)

Returns a text node contents below given node:

 text to be returned
 

Parameters:

node - node whose text child to return

Returns:

text node contents or null if no such child

getNodeAttribute

public static java.lang.String getNodeAttribute(org.w3c.dom.Node node,
                                                java.lang.String name)

Returns the value of a named node's attribute.

Parameters:

node - node whose attribute to return

name - name of attribute to return

Returns:

attribute value or null if not found

getNodeIntAttribute

public static int getNodeIntAttribute(org.w3c.dom.Node node,
                                      java.lang.String name)

Returns the value of a named node's attribute as an integer.

Parameters:

node - node whose attribute to return

name - name of attribute to return

Returns:

attribute value or null if not found

Throws:

MissingValueException - if the value is missing