Java tutorial
//package com.java2s; /******************************************************************************* * Copyright (c) 2012 Oak Ridge National Laboratory. * 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 ******************************************************************************/ import org.w3c.dom.Element; import org.w3c.dom.Node; public class Main { /** Locate a sub-element tagged 'name', return its value. * * Will only go one level down, not search the whole tree. * * @param element Element where to start looking. May be null. * @param name Name of sub-element to locate. * @param default_value Default value if not found * * @return Returns string that was found or default_value. */ final public static String getSubelementString(final Element element, final String name, final String default_value) { if (element == null) return default_value; Node n = element.getFirstChild(); n = findFirstElementNode(n, name); if (n != null) { Node text_node = n.getFirstChild(); if (text_node == null) return default_value; return text_node.getNodeValue(); } return default_value; } /** Look for Element node if given name. * <p> * Checks the node and its siblings. * Does not descent down the 'child' links. * @param node Node where to start. * @param name Name of the nodes to look for. * @return Returns node or the next matching sibling or null. */ final public static Element findFirstElementNode(Node node, final String name) { while (node != null) { if (node.getNodeType() == Node.ELEMENT_NODE && node.getNodeName().equals(name)) return (Element) node; node = node.getNextSibling(); } return null; } }