Java tutorial
//package com.java2s; /* * JBoss, Home of Professional Open Source * Copyright 2011 Red Hat Inc. and/or its affiliates and other contributors * as indicated by the @author tags. All rights reserved. * See the copyright.txt in the distribution for a * full listing of individual contributors. * * This copyrighted material is made available to anyone wishing to use, * modify, copy, or redistribute it subject to the terms and conditions * of the GNU Lesser General Public License, v. 2.1. * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT A * WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A * PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU Lesser General Public License for more details. * You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public License, * v.2.1 along with this distribution; if not, write to the Free Software * Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, * MA 02110-1301, USA. */ import org.w3c.dom.Element; import org.w3c.dom.Node; import org.w3c.dom.NodeList; public class Main { /** * Get the first child Element of the supplied node that matches a given tag name. * * @param node The DOM Node. * @param name The name of the child node to search for. * @return The first child element with the matching tag name. */ public static Element getFirstChildElementByName(Node node, String name) { NodeList children = node.getChildNodes(); int childCount = children.getLength(); for (int i = 0; i < childCount; i++) { Node child = children.item(i); if (child != null && child.getNodeType() == Node.ELEMENT_NODE && child.getNodeName() != null && child.getNodeName().equals(name)) { return (Element) child; } } return null; } }