org.openorb.board.shared.util
Class XMLTools

java.lang.Object
  org.openorb.board.shared.util.XMLTools

public class XMLTools
extends java.lang.Object

OpenORB GUI Utilities / XML Tools This class provides methods for reading / writing a XML document. This ideally would be mapped to Castor

Author:

Marina DANIEL, Olivier Modica

Constructor Summary

XMLTools(java.io.InputStream input)
Constructor which initializes the root node from the XML file input stream

Method Summary

org.w3c.dom.Node[]	getElements(java.lang.String elementName) This method returns the nodes (if several) represented by the element name.
java.lang.String[]	getStringValue(java.lang.String elementName) This methods returns the property values ( if several ) in a string format

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Constructor Detail

XMLTools

public XMLTools(java.io.InputStream input)

Constructor which initializes the root node from the XML file input stream

Parameters:

input - the XML file inputStream

Method Detail

getElements

public org.w3c.dom.Node[] getElements(java.lang.String elementName)

This method returns the nodes (if several) represented by the element name.

Parameters:

elementName - The element name ( in node0.node1.node2 format ).

Returns:

The required nodes.

getStringValue

public java.lang.String[] getStringValue(java.lang.String elementName)

This methods returns the property values ( if several ) in a string format

Parameters:

elementName - the property name ( in node0.node1.node2:attr format )

Returns:

the property values