Initial parser APIs

[shibboleth/xmltooling.git] / xmltooling / util / XMLHelper.h

diff --git a/xmltooling/util/XMLHelper.h b/xmltooling/util/XMLHelper.h
index 689370a..5d6925a 100644 (file)
--- a/xmltooling/util/XMLHelper.h
+++ b/xmltooling/util/XMLHelper.h
@@ -85,6 +85,18 @@ namespace xmltooling {
          * @return the child Element that was added (may be an imported copy)\r
          */\r
         static DOMElement* appendChildElement(DOMElement* parentElement, DOMElement* childElement);\r
+        \r
+        /**\r
+         * Checks the qualified name of an element.\r
+         * \r
+         * @param e     element to check\r
+         * @param ns    namespace to compare with\r
+         * @param local local name to compare with\r
+         * @return  true iff the element's qualified name matches the other parameters\r
+         */\r
+        static bool isElementNamed(const DOMElement* e, const XMLCh* ns, const XMLCh* local) {\r
+            return (e && !XMLString::compareString(ns,e->getNamespaceURI()) && !XMLString::compareString(local,e->getLocalName()));\r
+        }\r
     };\r
 \r
 };\r