1   package com.atlassian.seraph.util;
2   
3   import org.w3c.dom.Text;
4   import org.w3c.dom.Element;
5   import org.w3c.dom.Node;
6   
7   /**
8    * Some basic XML utility methods used by Seraph.
9    */
10  public class XMLUtils
11  {
12      /**
13       * With a given parent XML Element, find the text contents of the child element with
14       * supplied name.
15       */
16      public static String getContainedText(Node parent, String childTagName)
17      {
18          try
19          {
20              Node tag = ((Element) parent).getElementsByTagName(childTagName).item(0);
21              String text = ((Text) tag.getFirstChild()).getData();
22              return text;
23          }
24          catch (Exception e)
25          {
26              return null;
27          }
28      }
29  }