public static String theSomethingElement()

in freemarker-docgen-core/src/main/java/org/freemarker/docgen/core/XMLUtil.java [253:318]
57 lines of code
17 McCabe index (conditional complexity)

    public static String theSomethingElement(Element elem, boolean capFirst) {
        String id = getAttribute(elem, "id");
        if (id == null) {
            id = getAttribute(elem, "xml:id");
        }
        if (id != null && (id.startsWith(Transform.AUTO_ID_PREFIX)
                || id.startsWith(Transform.DOCGEN_ID_PREFIX))) {
            id = null;
        }
        
        StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
        
        if (id != null || elem.getParentNode() instanceof Document) {
            sb.append("the \"");
        } else {
            sb.append("a(n) \"");
        }
        sb.append(elem.getLocalName());
        sb.append("\" element");
        
        if (id != null) {
            sb.append(" with xml:id=\"").append(id).append("\"");
        }
        
        Location loc = (Location) elem.getUserData(
                ValidatingDOMBuilderWithLocations.KEY_LOCATION);
        if (loc != null) {
            sb.append(" (location: ");
            boolean empty = true;
            
            String sysId = loc.getSystemId();
            if (sysId != null) {
                // Since it goes into the middle of other error messages,
                // keep only the file name and the containing directory name: 
                int slashIdx = sysId.lastIndexOf("/");
                if (slashIdx != -1) {
                    slashIdx = sysId.lastIndexOf("/", slashIdx - 1);
                    if (slashIdx > 0) {
                        sysId = "[...]" + sysId.substring(slashIdx);
                    }
                }
                sb.append(sysId);
                empty = false;
            }
            if (loc.getLine() > 0) {
                if (!empty) {
                    sb.append(':');
                }
                sb.append(loc.getLine());
                empty = false;
            }
            if (loc.getColumn() > 0) {
                if (!empty) {
                    sb.append(':');
                }
                sb.append(loc.getColumn());
            }
            sb.append(")");
        }
        
        if (capFirst) {
            sb.setCharAt(0, Character.toUpperCase(sb.charAt(0)));
        }
        
        return sb.toString();
    }