Java tutorial
import org.w3c.dom.Element; import org.w3c.dom.Node; /* * 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. */ public class Main { /** * Finds and returns the next sibling node with the given name and * attribute name, value pair. Since only elements have attributes, * the node returned will be of type Node.ELEMENT_NODE. */ public static Element getNextSiblingElement(Node node, String elemName, String attrName, String attrValue) { // search for node Node sibling = node.getNextSibling(); while (sibling != null) { if (sibling.getNodeType() == Node.ELEMENT_NODE) { Element element = (Element) sibling; if (element.getNodeName().equals(elemName) && element.getAttribute(attrName).equals(attrValue)) { return element; } } sibling = sibling.getNextSibling(); } // not found return null; } // getNextSiblingElement(Node,String,String,String):Element }