IDTagger

import java.io.IOException;
import org.jdom.*;
import org.jdom.input.SAXBuilder;
import org.jdom.output.XMLOutputter;
import java.util.*;


public class IDTagger {

  private static int id = 1;

  public static void processElement(Element element) {

    if (element.getAttribute("ID") == null) {
      element.addAttribute(new Attribute("ID", "_" + id));
      id = id + 1; 
    }
    
    // recursion
    List children = element.getChildren();
    Iterator iterator = children.iterator();
    while (iterator.hasNext()) {
      processElement((Element) iterator.next());   
    }
    
  }

  public static void main(String[] args) {
     
    SAXBuilder builder = new SAXBuilder();
    
    for (int i = 0; i < args.length; i++) {
        
      try {
        // Read the entire document into memory
        Document document = builder.build(args[i]); 
       
        processElement(document.getRootElement());
        
        // now we serialize the document...
        XMLOutputter serializer = new XMLOutputter(); 
        serializer.output(document, System.out);
        System.out.flush();	        
      }
      catch (JDOMException e) {
        System.err.println(e);
        continue; 
      }
      catch (IOException e) {
        System.err.println(e);
        continue; 
      }
      
    }
  
  } // end main

}