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+++ b/artifact-database/src/main/java/de/intevation/artifactdatabase/XMLUtils.java	Wed Sep 09 14:33:25 2009 +0000
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+package de.intevation.artifactdatabase;
+
+import org.w3c.dom.Document;
+import org.w3c.dom.Element;
+import org.w3c.dom.Attr;
+
+import javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilderFactory;
+
+import javax.xml.parsers.ParserConfigurationException;
+
+import org.apache.log4j.Logger;
+
+/**
+ *  @author Sascha L. Teichmann
+ */
+public final class XMLUtils
+{
+    private static Logger logger = Logger.getLogger(XMLUtils.class);
+
+    private XMLUtils() {
+    }
+
+    public static class ElementCreator
+    {
+        protected Document document;
+        protected String   ns;
+        protected String   prefix;
+
+        public ElementCreator(Document document, String ns, String prefix) {
+            this.document = document;
+            this.ns       = ns;
+            this.prefix   = prefix;
+        }
+
+        public Element create(String name) {
+            Element element = document.createElementNS(ns, name);
+            element.setPrefix(prefix);
+            return element;
+        }
+
+        public void addAttr(Element element, String name, String value) {
+            Attr attr = document.createAttributeNS(ns, name);
+            attr.setValue(value);
+            attr.setPrefix(prefix);
+            element.setAttributeNode(attr);
+        }
+    } // class ElementCreator
+
+    public static final Document newDocument() {
+        try {
+            return DocumentBuilderFactory
+                .newInstance()
+                .newDocumentBuilder()
+                .newDocument();
+        }
+        catch (ParserConfigurationException pce) {
+            logger.error(pce.getLocalizedMessage(), pce);
+        }
+        return null;
+    }
+}
+// vim:set ts=4 sw=4 si et sta sts=4 fenc=utf8: