Java tutorial
//package com.java2s; /******************************************************************************* * Manchester Centre for Integrative Systems Biology * University of Manchester * Manchester M1 7ND * United Kingdom * * Copyright (C) 2007 University of Manchester * * This program is released under the Academic Free License ("AFL") v3.0. * (http://www.opensource.org/licenses/academic.php) *******************************************************************************/ import org.w3c.dom.*; import org.w3c.dom.Element; public class Main { /** * * @param element * @param nodeName * @return Element */ public static Element getFirstElement(final Element element, final String nodeName) { final NodeList list = element.getElementsByTagName(nodeName); if (list.getLength() == 0) { return null; } return (Element) list.item(0); } }