Getting a Node Relative to Another Node in a DOM Document
import java.io.File;
import javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilderFactory;
import org.w3c.dom.Document;
import org.w3c.dom.Element;
import org.w3c.dom.Node;
import org.w3c.dom.NodeList;
public class Main {
public static void main(String[] argv) throws Exception {
DocumentBuilderFactory factory = DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance();
factory.setValidating(true);
factory.setExpandEntityReferences(false);
Document doc1 = factory.newDocumentBuilder().parse(new File("filename"));
NodeList list = doc1.getElementsByTagName("entry");
Element element = (Element) list.item(0);
Document doc2 = factory.newDocumentBuilder().parse(new File("infilename2.xml"));
// Make a copy of the element subtree suitable for inserting into doc2
Node node = doc2.importNode(element, true);
// Get the parent
Node parent = node.getParentNode();
// Get children
NodeList children = node.getChildNodes();
// Get first child; null if no children
Node child = node.getFirstChild();
// Get last child; null if no children
child = node.getLastChild();
// Get next sibling; null if node is last child
Node sibling = node.getNextSibling();
// Get previous sibling; null if node is first child
sibling = node.getPreviousSibling();
// Get first sibling
sibling = node.getParentNode().getFirstChild();
// Get last sibling
sibling = node.getParentNode().getLastChild();
}
}
Related examples in the same category