Question

How to find elements by attributes in a DOM document with Java? Thanks.

Answer 1

With a utility like jOOX, you can wrap your DOM document and use a jQuery-like API to achieve what you need. You have several options:

• Using XPath (of course, instead of using jOOX, you could use the standard Java XPath API directly)

  Match match = $(document).xpath("//element[@attrName='value']");
  

• Using CSS-style selectors

  Match match = $(document).find("element[attrName='value']");
  

• Using the jOOX API

  Match match = $(document).find("element").filter(attr("attrName", "value"));
  

The returned org.joox.Match object can then be used in various ways, e.g. for iteration:

for (Element element : match.each()) {
  System.out.println($(element));
}