obtaining the value of a component option, in the project file

Is there a simple openAPI way (meaning: 'other that reading the project
file through jdom') to obtain the value 'value_1' below:

]]> <<----

find
'value_1'
...


One would expect that:

Project project = ..
BaseComponent component = project.getComponent ("MyComponent");

is the way to go, but it leads nowhere.


Alain