Changeset 3466

Timestamp:

2002-10-16T09:22:25+13:00 (22 years ago)

Author:

kjdon

Message:

add new method

File:

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

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

@@ -294 +294 @@
     return p;
     }
+
+    /** returns the element parent/node_name[@attribute_name='attribute_value']
+     */
+    public static Element getNamedElement(Element parent, String node_name,
+                      String attribute_name, 
+                      String attribute_value) {
+
+    NodeList children = parent.getChildNodes();
+    for (int i=0; i<children.getLength(); i++) {
+        Node child = children.item(i);
+        if (child.getNodeName().equals(node_name)) {
+        if (((Element)child).getAttribute(attribute_name).equals(attribute_value))
+            return (Element)child;
+        }
+    }
+    // not found
+    return null;
+    }
 }