Java Utililty Methods XML Element Check

boolean is(final Element e, final String tag)
is

return e.getTagName().equalsIgnoreCase(tag);

boolean isAncestor(Element candAnc, Node cand)
Check, if a given DOM element is an ancestor of a given node.

Node currPar = cand.getParentNode();
while (currPar != null) {
 if (candAnc == currPar)
 return true;
 currPar = currPar.getParentNode();
return false;

boolean isAppearanceTag(Element e)
is Appearance Tag

if (e.getTagName().matches("H[1-9]")) {
 return true;
if (e.getTagName().equals("FONT") && !e.getAttribute("COLOR").equals("")) {
 return true;
if (e.getTagName().matches("[B|I|STRONG]")) {
 return true;
...

boolean isAsyncEventQueue(Element element)
is Async Event Queue

return ASYNC_EVENT_QUEUE_ELEMENT_NAME.equals(element.getLocalName());

boolean isComputedGoal(final Element element)
Check if an element describes a computed goal or not.

return "computedGoal".equals(element.getNodeName());

boolean isElement(XMLStreamReader xmlRdr, int eventType, String tagName)
is Element

int event = xmlRdr.getEventType();
if (event == eventType) {
 String locName = xmlRdr.getLocalName();
 if (locName.equals(tagName))
 return true;
return false;

boolean isElementExistsByTagName(final Element element, final String tagName)
Checks if is element exists by tag name.

if (element == null || tagName == null || tagName.isEmpty()) {
 return false;
final NodeList res = element.getChildNodes();
for (int i = 0; i < res.getLength(); i++) {
 final Node node = res.item(i);
 if (node.getNodeType() == Node.ELEMENT_NODE) {
 final Element elem = (Element) node;
...

boolean isElementNamed(Element e, String ns, String localName)
Shortcut for checking a DOM element node's namespace and local name

return (e != null && safeCompare(ns, e.getNamespaceURI()) && safeCompare(localName, e.getLocalName()));

boolean isEmpty(final Element el)
See if this node is empty

return !hasChildren(el) && !hasContent(el);

boolean isEmptyElement(Element el)
Check that an element is empty, i.e., it contains no non-whitespace text or elements as children.

NodeList nl = el.getChildNodes();
int len = nl.getLength();
for (int i = 0; i < len; ++i) {
 switch (nl.item(i).getNodeType()) {
 case Node.CDATA_SECTION_NODE:
 case Node.TEXT_NODE:
 String s = nl.item(i).getNodeValue();
 if (s != null && s.trim().length() > 0) {
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