Changeset 31868

Timestamp:

2017-08-10T14:20:15+12:00 (6 years ago)

Author:

kjdon

Message:

added new method replaceNamedItemInList

File:

• main/trunk/greenstone3/src/java/org/greenstone/gsdl3/util/GSXML.java (modified) (1 diff)

main/trunk/greenstone3/src/java/org/greenstone/gsdl3/util/GSXML.java

@@ -868 +868 @@
     }
 
+  /* Have an element with a set of children, attributes name="x". Replace the specified item in the list with new_item. */
+  /* this assumes we only have children of the same node name. if going tro have mixed lists, need to test on node name as well */
+  public static void replaceNamedItemInList(Element item_list, String item_node_name, String name_att, String item_name, Element new_item) {
+    Node child = item_list.getFirstChild();
+    while(child != null) {
+      if (child.getNodeName().equals(item_node_name) && ((Element)child).getAttribute(name_att).equals(item_name)) {
+    //replace the element
+    item_list.insertBefore(item_list.getOwnerDocument().importNode(new_item, true), child);
+    item_list.removeChild(child);
+    return;
+      }
+      child = child.getNextSibling();
+    }
+
+  }
     /**
      * Given a Node representing an Element or Document, will return the