Java tutorial
//package com.java2s; /* * #%L * VisBio application for visualization of multidimensional biological * image data. * %% * Copyright (C) 2002 - 2014 Board of Regents of the University of * Wisconsin-Madison. * %% * This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify * it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as * published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 2 of the * License, or (at your option) any later version. * * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the * GNU General Public License for more details. * * You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public * License along with this program. If not, see * <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html>. * #L% */ import java.util.Vector; import org.w3c.dom.Element; import org.w3c.dom.Node; import org.w3c.dom.NodeList; public class Main { /** * Retrieves the given DOM element's child elements with the specified name. * If name is null, all children are retrieved. */ public static Element[] getChildren(final Element el, final String name) { final Vector v = new Vector(); final NodeList nodes = el.getChildNodes(); final int len = nodes.getLength(); for (int i = 0; i < len; i++) { final Node node = nodes.item(i); if (!(node instanceof Element)) continue; final Element e = (Element) node; if (name == null || e.getTagName().equals(name)) v.add(e); } final Element[] els = new Element[v.size()]; v.copyInto(els); return els; } }