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/** * 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.Node; public final class NodeUtils { /** * Returns a first child DOM Node of type ELEMENT_NODE * for the specified Node. */ public static Node getChildElementNode(Node xmlNode) { if (xmlNode == null || !xmlNode.hasChildNodes()) { return null; } xmlNode = xmlNode.getFirstChild(); while (xmlNode != null && xmlNode.getNodeType() != Node.ELEMENT_NODE) { xmlNode = xmlNode.getNextSibling(); } return xmlNode; } }