Class DomTools

java.lang.Object

org.episteme.social.linguistics.loaders.tigerxml.tools.DomTools

public class DomTools
extends Object

Provides methods useful when utilizing the Document Object Model API as specified by the w3c. This class is for static use. * $Id: DomTools.java,v 1.2 2007-10-21 17:47:09 virtualcall Exp $

Since:

1.0

Author:

Silvere Martin-Michiellot, Gemini AI (Google DeepMind)

Constructor Summary

Constructors

Constructor	Description
DomTools()

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method	Description
static final void	checkElementName(Element ele, String name)	Checks if the name of ele is name.
static final Element	getElement(Element ele, String name)	Returns the first element named name in Element ele.
static final String	getText(Element ele)	Returns the text embeded in ele.
static final boolean	hasElement(Element ele, String name)	Checks if the given Element has a child named name.
static final void	printNodeInfo(Node node)	Prints information about a given node to stdout.

Methods inherited from class Object

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

Constructor Details

DomTools

public DomTools()

Method Details

hasElement

public static final boolean hasElement(Element ele,
 String name)

Checks if the given Element has a child named name.

Parameters:

ele - The Element to be checked.

name - The name of the child to be checked.

Returns:

true if ele has a child name, else false.

getElement

public static final Element getElement(Element ele,
 String name)

Returns the first element named name in Element ele.

Parameters:

ele - The Element holding the element to be retrieved.

name - The name of the Element to be retrieved.

Returns:

The element to be retrieved.

printNodeInfo

public static final void printNodeInfo(Node node)

Prints information about a given node to stdout.

Parameters:

node - The node to print information about.

checkElementName

public static final void checkElementName(Element ele,
 String name)

Checks if the name of ele is name. If not, a warning message is printed to stderr.

Parameters:

ele - The Element to be checked.

name - The name of the Element to be checked against.

getText

public static final String getText(Element ele)

Returns the text embeded in ele.

Parameters:

ele - The Element to be read out.

Returns:

The text embeded in ele.