Package com.webmethods.caf.common

Class XMLUtil

java.lang.Object

com.webmethods.caf.common.XMLUtil

public class XMLUtil
extends Object

Utility class for loading XML documents

Constructor Summary

Constructors

Constructor	Description
XMLUtil()

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method	Description
protected static Document	_loadDocument(InputSource inputSource)	loads an xml document from the xslt input source
static void	clean(Node node)	deletes the comment nodes and text nodes with all empty spaces.
static DocumentBuilderFactory	getBuilderFactory()
static Map<String,String>	getMapFromElementAttributes(Element element)	Constructs a Map from the attributes on the given element.
static SAXParserFactory	getSAXParserFactory()
static Source	getSAXSource(Reader inputReader)
static XMLReader	getXMLParser(ClassLoader l)	Convenience to get default xml parser.
static Document	loadDocumentFromReader(Reader reader)	loads an xml document by the suplied java.io.Reader
static Document	loadDocumentFromXML(String xml)	Load XML (String format) into a Document
static String	serialize(Element elem)	Serialize the element

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Constructor Details

XMLUtil

public XMLUtil()

Method Details

loadDocumentFromXML

public static Document loadDocumentFromXML(String xml)
                                    throws ParserConfigurationException,
FactoryConfigurationError,
SAXException,
IOException

Load XML (String format) into a Document

Parameters:

xml - String in XML format

Returns:

Document containing XML content

Throws:

ParserConfigurationException

FactoryConfigurationError

SAXException

IOException

loadDocumentFromReader

public static Document loadDocumentFromReader(Reader reader)
                                       throws ParserConfigurationException,
FactoryConfigurationError,
SAXException,
IOException

loads an xml document by the suplied java.io.Reader

Parameters:

reader - is an open Reader to an xml document.

Throws:

ParserConfigurationException

FactoryConfigurationError

SAXException

IOException

_loadDocument

protected static Document _loadDocument(InputSource inputSource)
                                 throws ParserConfigurationException,
FactoryConfigurationError,
SAXException,
IOException

loads an xml document from the xslt input source

Parameters:

inputSource - is the xslt input source

Throws:

ParserConfigurationException

FactoryConfigurationError

SAXException

IOException

getBuilderFactory

public static DocumentBuilderFactory getBuilderFactory()

serialize

public static String serialize(Element elem)
                        throws IOException

Serialize the element

Parameters:

elem - null or Element

Returns:

Serialized version of element

Throws:

IOException

getMapFromElementAttributes

public static Map<String,String> getMapFromElementAttributes(Element element)

Constructs a Map from the attributes on the given element. namespaces are ignored.

Parameters:

element - the element to get the attributes from

Returns:

a map of the element's attributes as name-value pairs. (Ignoring namespaces)

clean

public static void clean(Node node)

deletes the comment nodes and text nodes with all empty spaces. If the text node has some value, value will be trimmed

getXMLParser

public static XMLReader getXMLParser(ClassLoader l)
                              throws SAXException

Convenience to get default xml parser.

Throws:

SAXException

getSAXParserFactory

public static SAXParserFactory getSAXParserFactory()

getSAXSource

public static Source getSAXSource(Reader inputReader)
                           throws IOException

Throws:

IOException