src/java/org/apache/velocity/anakia/TreeWalker.java

package org.apache.velocity.anakia;

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import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.Collection;
import java.util.Iterator;

import org.jdom.Element;

/**
 * This class allows you to walk a tree of JDOM Element objects.
 * It first walks the tree itself starting at the Element passed
 * into allElements() and stores each node of the tree
 * in a Vector which allElements() returns as a result of its
 * execution. You can then use a #foreach in Velocity to walk
 * over the Vector and visit each Element node. However, you can
 * achieve the same effect by calling <code>element.selectNodes("//*")</code>.
 *
 * @author <a href="mailto:jon@latchkey.com">Jon S. Stevens</a>
 * @author <a href="mailto:szegedia@freemail.hu">Attila Szegedi</a>
 * @version $Id$
 */
public class TreeWalker
{
    /**
     * Empty constructor
     */
    public TreeWalker()
    {
        // Left blank
    }

    /**
     * Creates a new Vector and walks the Element tree.
     *
     * @param e the starting Element node
     * @return Vector a vector of Element nodes
     */
    public NodeList allElements(Element e)
    {
        ArrayList theElements = new ArrayList();
        treeWalk (e, theElements);
        return new NodeList(theElements, false);
    }

    /**
     * A recursive method to walk the Element tree.
     * @param Element the current Element
     */
    private final void treeWalk(Element e, Collection theElements )
    {
        for (Iterator i=e.getChildren().iterator(); i.hasNext(); )
        {
            Element child = (Element)i.next();
            theElements.add(child);
            treeWalk(child, theElements);
        }
    }
}