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Finds and returns the next sibling node with the given name and attribute name, value pair.

 
import org.w3c.dom.Element;
import org.w3c.dom.Node;

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public class Main {
  /**
   * Finds and returns the next sibling node with the given name and
   * attribute name, value pair. Since only elements have attributes,
   * the node returned will be of type Node.ELEMENT_NODE.
   */
  public static Element getNextSiblingElement(Node   node,
          String elemName,
          String attrName,
          String attrValue) {
      
      // search for node
      Node sibling = node.getNextSibling();
      while (sibling != null) {
          if (sibling.getNodeType() == Node.ELEMENT_NODE) {
              Element element = (Element)sibling;
              if (element.getNodeName().equals(elemName) &&
                      element.getAttribute(attrName).equals(attrValue)) {
                  return element;
              }
          }
          sibling = sibling.getNextSibling();
      }
      
      // not found
      return null;
      
  } // getNextSiblingElement(Node,String,String,String):Element
}








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