com.gargoylesoftware.htmlunit.xml
Class XmlUtil

java.lang.Object
  com.gargoylesoftware.htmlunit.xml.XmlUtil

public final class XmlUtil
extends Object

INTERNAL API - SUBJECT TO CHANGE AT ANY TIME - USE AT YOUR OWN RISK.
Provides facility method to work with XML responses.

Version:

$Revision: 5563 $

Author:

Marc Guillemot, Ahmed Ashour, Sudhan Moghe

Method Summary

static void	appendChild(SgmlPage page, DomNode parent, Node child) Recursively appends a Node child to DomNode parent.
static Document	buildDocument(WebResponse webResponse) Builds a document from the content of the web response.
static String	lookupNamespaceURI(DomElement element, String prefix) Search for the namespace URI of the given prefix, starting from the specified element.
static String	lookupPrefix(DomElement element, String namespace) Search for the prefix associated with specified namespace URI.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Method Detail

buildDocument

public static Document buildDocument(WebResponse webResponse)
                              throws IOException,
                                     SAXException,
                                     ParserConfigurationException

Builds a document from the content of the web response. A warning is logged if an exception is thrown while parsing the XML content (for instance when the content is not a valid XML and can't be parsed).

Parameters:

webResponse - the response from the server

Returns:

the parse result

Throws:

IOException - if the page could not be created

SAXException - if the parsing fails

ParserConfigurationException - if a DocumentBuilder cannot be created

appendChild

public static void appendChild(SgmlPage page,
                               DomNode parent,
                               Node child)

Recursively appends a Node child to DomNode parent.

Parameters:

page - the owner page of DomElements to be created

parent - the parent DomNode

child - the child Node

lookupNamespaceURI

public static String lookupNamespaceURI(DomElement element,
                                        String prefix)

Search for the namespace URI of the given prefix, starting from the specified element.

Parameters:

element - the element to start searching from

prefix - the namespace prefix

Returns:

the namespace URI bound to the prefix; or null if there is no such namespace

lookupPrefix

public static String lookupPrefix(DomElement element,
                                  String namespace)

Search for the prefix associated with specified namespace URI.

Parameters:

element - the element to start searching from

namespace - the namespace prefix

Returns:

the prefix bound to the namespace URI; or null if there is no such namespace