Here you can find the source of firstDescendantWithName(Element element, String name)
public static Element firstDescendantWithName(Element element, String name)
//package com.java2s; /******************************************************************************* * Copyright (c) 2013 Jose Alcal? Correa. * All rights reserved. This program and the accompanying materials * are made available under the terms of the GNU Lesser Public License v3.0 * which accompanies this distribution, and is available at * http://www.gnu.org/licenses/lgpl-3.0.txt * /* w ww . ja va 2 s . c om*/ * Contributors: * Jose Alcal? Correa - initial API and implementation ******************************************************************************/ import org.w3c.dom.Element; import org.w3c.dom.Node; import org.w3c.dom.NodeList; public class Main { public static Element firstDescendantWithName(Element element, String name) { NodeList list = element.getElementsByTagName(name); if (list.getLength() > 0) { Node n = list.item(0); if (n.getNodeType() == Node.ELEMENT_NODE) return (Element) n; } return null; } }