org.hibernate.search.util
Class XMLHelper

java.lang.Object
  org.hibernate.search.util.XMLHelper

public class XMLHelper
extends java.lang.Object

A utility class to help with xml parsing

Author:

Lukasz Moren

Constructor Summary

XMLHelper()

Method Summary

static org.w3c.dom.Element

elementFromString(java.lang.String xml) Converts a String representing an XML snippet into an Element.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Constructor Detail

XMLHelper

public XMLHelper()

Method Detail

elementFromString

public static org.w3c.dom.Element elementFromString(java.lang.String xml)
                                             throws java.lang.Exception

Converts a String representing an XML snippet into an Element.

Parameters:

xml - snippet as a string

Returns:

a DOM Element

Throws:

java.lang.Exception - if unable to parse the String or if it doesn't contain valid XML.