Java tutorial
//package com.java2s; /*-------------------------------------------------------------------------- * Copyright (c) 2004, 2006 OpenMethods, LLC * All rights reserved. This program and the accompanying materials * are made available under the terms of the Eclipse Public License v1.0 * which accompanies this distribution, and is available at * http://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-v10.html * * Contributors: * Trip Gilman (OpenMethods), Lonnie G. Pryor (OpenMethods), * Vincent Pruitt (OpenMethods) * * T.D. Barnes (OpenMethods) - initial API and implementation -------------------------------------------------------------------------*/ import java.util.ArrayList; import java.util.List; import org.w3c.dom.Element; import org.w3c.dom.Node; import org.w3c.dom.NodeList; public class Main { /** * Retrieves the DOM <code>NodeList</code> contained by the named element * in the given parent element.<br> * <br> * <pre> * <parent-element> * <named-list> * <list-item/> * <list-item/> * </named-list> * </parent-element> * </pre> * * In the above example, a <code>NodeList</code> containing the two * <pre><list-item/></pre> elements would be returned by passing the parent * element and "named-list" into the function parameters. * * @param parent The parent DOM element that contains the named list. * @param containerTagName The name of the element that contains the list items. * @return A <code>NodeList</code> containing the list items. * @throws Exception If an exception occurs while traversing the DOM objects. */ public static NodeList getNamedNodeList(Element parent, String containerTagName) throws Exception { NodeList nl = parent.getElementsByTagName(containerTagName); if (nl.getLength() < 1) { throw new Exception("Missing named list: " + containerTagName); } return nl.item(0).getChildNodes(); } public static List<Element> getElementsByTagName(Element parent, String name, boolean localOnly) { List<Element> ret = new ArrayList<Element>(); if (!localOnly) { NodeList elementList = parent.getElementsByTagName(name); for (int i = 0; i < elementList.getLength(); i++) { ret.add((Element) elementList.item(i)); } } else { NodeList childList = parent.getChildNodes(); for (int i = 0; i < childList.getLength(); i++) { if (childList.item(i).getNodeType() != Node.ELEMENT_NODE) continue; Element child = (Element) childList.item(i); if (child.getTagName().equals(name)) ret.add(child); } } return ret; } }