Java tutorial
//package com.java2s; /* This file is part of Cyclos (www.cyclos.org). A project of the Social Trade Organisation (www.socialtrade.org). Cyclos is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. Cyclos is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with Cyclos; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA */ 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 { /** * Returns a list of children (class Element) with the given tag name */ public static List<Element> getChilden(final Element element, final String tagName) { final List<Element> children = new ArrayList<Element>(); final NodeList nodes = element.getChildNodes(); for (int i = 0; i < nodes.getLength(); i++) { final Node item = nodes.item(i); if (!(item instanceof Element)) { continue; } final Element elem = (Element) item; if (tagName.equals(elem.getTagName())) { children.add(elem); } } return children; } }