public IXmlWriter openElement()

in apache-rat-core/src/main/java/org/apache/rat/report/xml/writer/impl/base/XmlWriter.java [444:461]

• 18 lines of code
• 5 McCabe index (conditional complexity)

    public IXmlWriter openElement(final CharSequence elementName) throws IOException {
        if (elementsWritten && elementNames.isEmpty()) {
            throw new OperationNotAllowedException("Root element already closed. Cannot open new element.");
        }
        if (isInvalidName(elementName)) {
            throw new InvalidXmlException("'" + elementName + "' is not a valid element name");
        }
        elementsWritten = true;
        if (inElement) {
            writer.write('>');
        }
        writer.write('<');
        rawWrite(elementName);
        inElement = true;
        elementNames.push(elementName);
        currentAttributes.clear();
        return this;
    }