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+/*
+ * Copyright  2005 The Apache Software Foundation
+ *
+ *  Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+ *  you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+ *  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ *  Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ *  distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ *  WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ *  See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+ *  limitations under the License.
+ *
+ */
+
+package org.apache.tools.ant.util;
+
+import org.w3c.dom.CDATASection;
+import org.w3c.dom.Document;
+import org.w3c.dom.Element;
+import org.w3c.dom.Text;
+
+/**
+ * Some utility methods for common tasks when building DOM trees in memory.
+ *
+ * <p>In this documentation <code>&lt;a&gt;</code> means an {@link
+ * org.w3c.do.Element Element} instance with name <code>a</code>.</p>
+ *
+ * @since Ant 1.6.3
+ */
+public class DOMUtils {
+
+    /**
+     * Get a new Document instance,
+     *
+     * @since Ant 1.6.3
+     */
+    public static Document newDocument() {
+        return JAXPUtils.getDocumentBuilder().newDocument();
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Creates a named Element and appends it to the given element,
+     * returns it.
+     *
+     * <p>This means
+     * <pre>createChildElement(&lt;a&gt;, "b")</pre>
+     * creates
+     * <pre>
+     * &lt;a&gt;
+     *   &lt;b/&gt;
+     * &lt;/a&gt;
+     * </pre>
+     * and returns <code>&lt;b&gt;</code>.</p>
+     *
+     * @param parent element that will receive the new element as child.
+     * @param name name of the new element.
+     * @return the new element.
+     *
+     * @since Ant 1.6.3
+     */
+    public static Element createChildElement(Element parent, String name) {
+        Document doc = parent.getOwnerDocument();
+        Element e = doc.createElement(name);
+        parent.appendChild(e);
+        return e;
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Adds nested text.
+     *
+     * <p>This means
+     * <pre>appendText(&lt;a&gt;, "b")</pre>
+     * creates
+     * <pre>
+     * &lt;a&gt;b&lt;/a&gt;
+     * </pre>
+     * </p>
+     *
+     * @param parent element that will receive the new element as child.
+     * @param content text content.
+     *
+     * @since Ant 1.6.3
+     */
+    public static void appendText(Element parent, String content) {
+        Document doc = parent.getOwnerDocument();
+        Text t = doc.createTextNode(content);
+        parent.appendChild(t);
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Adds a nested CDATA section.
+     *
+     * <p>This means
+     * <pre>appendCDATA(&lt;a&gt;, "b")</pre>
+     * creates
+     * <pre>
+     * &lt;a&gt;&lt;[!CDATA[b]]&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
+     * </pre>
+     * </p>
+     *
+     * @param parent element that will receive the new element as child.
+     * @param content text content.
+     *
+     * @since Ant 1.6.3
+     */
+    public static void appendCDATA(Element parent, String content) {
+        Document doc = parent.getOwnerDocument();
+        CDATASection c = doc.createCDATASection(content);
+        parent.appendChild(c);
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Adds nested text in a new child element.
+     *
+     * <p>This means
+     * <pre>appendTextElement(&lt;a&gt;, "b", "c")</pre>
+     * creates
+     * <pre>
+     * &lt;a&gt;
+     *   &lt;b&gt;c&lt;/b&gt;
+     * &lt;/a&gt;
+     * </pre>
+     * </p>
+     *
+     * @param parent element that will receive the new element as child.
+     * @param name of the child element.
+     * @param content text content.
+     *
+     * @since Ant 1.6.3
+     */
+    public static void appendTextElement(Element parent, String name,
+                                         String content) {
+        Element e = createChildElement(parent, name);
+        appendText(e, content);
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Adds a nested CDATA section in a new child element.
+     *
+     * <p>This means
+     * <pre>appendCDATAElement(&lt;a&gt;, "b", "c")</pre>
+     * creates
+     * <pre>
+     * &lt;a&gt;
+     *   &lt;b&gt;&lt;![CDATA[c]]>&lt;/b&gt;
+     * &lt;/a&gt;
+     * </pre>
+     * </pre>
+     * </p>
+     *
+     * @param parent element that will receive the new element as child.
+     * @param name of the child element.
+     * @param content text content.
+     *
+     * @since Ant 1.6.3
+     */
+    public static void appendCDATAElement(Element parent, String name,
+                                          String content) {
+        Element e = createChildElement(parent, name);
+        appendCDATA(e, content);
+    }
+}
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