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.Element; import org.w3c.dom.Node; import org.w3c.dom.NodeList; public class Main { /** * Gets a child node by the given name. * * @param node the node * @param name the name of the child node to find and return * @return the child node, or <tt>null</tt> if none found */ public static Node getChildNodeByTagName(Node node, String name) { NodeList children = node.getChildNodes(); if (children != null && children.getLength() > 0) { for (int i = 0; i < children.getLength(); i++) { Node child = children.item(i); if (child instanceof Element) { Element element = (Element) child; if (name.equals(element.getTagName())) { return element; } } } } return null; } }