glassfrog.tools
Class XMLParser

java.lang.Object
  glassfrog.tools.XMLParser

public class XMLParser
extends java.lang.Object

Author:

jdavidso

Field Summary

private javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilder	builder
private org.w3c.dom.Document	doc

Constructor Summary

XMLParser(java.lang.String file)
Set up the XMLParser for the specified file

Method Summary

int[]	getArrayFromNode(org.w3c.dom.Node node, java.lang.String tag) Used to get the value of the content at a given node and return it as a array of ints.
boolean	getBooleanFromNode(org.w3c.dom.Node node, java.lang.String tag) Used to get the value of the content at a given node and return it as a boolean
int	getIntFromNode(org.w3c.dom.Node node, java.lang.String tag) Used to get the value of the content at a given node and return it as a int
java.lang.String	getStringFromNode(org.w3c.dom.Node node, java.lang.String tag) Used to get the value of the content at a given node and return it as a String
org.w3c.dom.NodeList	parseElements(java.lang.String tag) Used to parse out the elements in the XML matching the specified tag

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Field Detail

builder

private javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilder builder

doc

private org.w3c.dom.Document doc

Constructor Detail

XMLParser

public XMLParser(java.lang.String file)
          throws javax.xml.parsers.ParserConfigurationException,
                 org.xml.sax.SAXParseException,
                 org.xml.sax.SAXException,
                 java.io.IOException

Set up the XMLParser for the specified file

Parameters:

file - A string for the file to be parsed. Must be the full path

Throws:

javax.xml.parsers.ParserConfigurationException

org.xml.sax.SAXParseException

java.io.IOException

org.xml.sax.SAXException

Method Detail

parseElements

public org.w3c.dom.NodeList parseElements(java.lang.String tag)

Used to parse out the elements in the XML matching the specified tag

Parameters:

tag - The tag representing the tag of the element to parse out

Returns:

A NodeList of the elements in the document matching the given tag

getStringFromNode

public java.lang.String getStringFromNode(org.w3c.dom.Node node,
                                          java.lang.String tag)

Used to get the value of the content at a given node and return it as a String

Parameters:

node - A Node in the XMLDocument

tag - A tag representing the tag of the element to extract the value

Returns:

The value of the XML Element

getIntFromNode

public int getIntFromNode(org.w3c.dom.Node node,
                          java.lang.String tag)

Used to get the value of the content at a given node and return it as a int

Parameters:

node - A Node in the XMLDocument

tag - A tag representing the tag of the element to extract the value

Returns:

The value of the XML Element

getArrayFromNode

public int[] getArrayFromNode(org.w3c.dom.Node node,
                              java.lang.String tag)

Used to get the value of the content at a given node and return it as a array of ints. The string value must be a series of ints delimited by a '|'

Parameters:

node - A Node in the XMLDocument

tag - A tag representing the tag of the element to extract the value

Returns:

The value of the XML Element

getBooleanFromNode

public boolean getBooleanFromNode(org.w3c.dom.Node node,
                                  java.lang.String tag)

Used to get the value of the content at a given node and return it as a boolean

Parameters:

node - A Node in the XMLDocument

tag - A tag representing the tag of the element to extract the value

Returns:

The value of the XML Element