Java tutorial
//package com.java2s; /******************************************************************************* * Copyright (c) 2012 Firestar Software, Inc. * 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: * Firestar Software, Inc. - initial API and implementation * * Author: * Gabriel Oancea * *******************************************************************************/ import org.w3c.dom.*; public class Main { /** * Get the first child element of the specified element, null if it has no child elements. * * @param root The element to search. * @return The first child element, null if it has none. */ public static Element getFirstChild(Element root) { if (root == null) return null; NodeList lst = root.getChildNodes(); final int n = lst.getLength(); for (int i = 0; i < n; i++) { Node node = lst.item(i); if (node.getNodeType() == Node.ELEMENT_NODE) return (Element) node; } return null; } }