Java tutorial
//package com.java2s; /** * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one * or more contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file * distributed with this work for additional information * regarding copyright ownership. The ASF licenses this file * to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the * "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance * with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at * * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 * * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, * software distributed under the License is distributed on an * "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY * KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the * specific language governing permissions and limitations * under the License. */ import org.w3c.dom.Attr; import org.w3c.dom.Node; public class Main { /** * Returns true if the descendantOrSelf is on the descendant-or-self axis * of the context node. * * @param ctx * @param descendantOrSelf * @return true if the node is descendant */ public static boolean isDescendantOrSelf(Node ctx, Node descendantOrSelf) { if (ctx == descendantOrSelf) { return true; } Node parent = descendantOrSelf; while (true) { if (parent == null) { return false; } if (parent == ctx) { return true; } if (parent.getNodeType() == Node.ATTRIBUTE_NODE) { parent = ((Attr) parent).getOwnerElement(); } else { parent = parent.getParentNode(); } } } }