Java tutorial
//package com.java2s; /* Copyright (c) 2009-2011 Olivier Chafik, All Rights Reserved This file is part of JNAerator (http://jnaerator.googlecode.com/). JNAerator 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 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. JNAerator 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 JNAerator. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>. */ import org.w3c.dom.Node; import org.w3c.dom.NodeList; public class Main { public static Node getFirstNamedNode(Node node, String name) { if (node.getNodeName().equalsIgnoreCase(name)) return node; else { NodeList list = node.getChildNodes(); for (int i = 0, len = list.getLength(); i < len; i++) { Node n = getFirstNamedNode(list.item(i), name); if (n != null) return n; } return null; } } }