/*
 * Copyright 2003 Federal Chancellery Austria
 * MOA-ID has been developed in a cooperation between BRZ, the Federal
 * Chancellery Austria - ICT staff unit, and Graz University of Technology.
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package at.gv.egovernment.moa.util;

/**
 * Utility class for parsing XML schema boolean values.
 * 
 * @author Patrick Peck
 * @version $Id$
 */
public class BoolUtils {
  
  /**
   * Return the boolean value of an <code>xsd:boolean</code> type of DOM 
   * element/attribute.
   * 
   * @param boolStr The value of the <code>xsd:boolean</code> element/attribute.
   * @return <code>true</code>, if <code>boolStr</code> equals 
   * <code>&quot;true&quot;</code> or <code>&quot;1;&quot;</code>. Otherwise,
   * <code>false</code> is returned.
   */
  public static boolean valueOf(String boolStr) {
    return "true".equals(boolStr) || "1".equals(boolStr);
  }

}