Java tutorial
//package com.java2s; /* * 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; import org.w3c.dom.NodeList; public class Main { /** * Get the a specific child node from its parent node by matching the local * name. If not found, return null. * * @param parentNode * the parent node. * @param localNodeName * the local name of the node. * @return the node with the matching local name; otherwise, null if not * found. */ public static Node getChildNodeByLocalName(final Node parentNode, final String localNodeName) { final NodeList children = parentNode.getChildNodes(); for (int i = 0; i < children.getLength(); i++) { final Node child = children.item(i); if (child.getLocalName() != null) { if (child.getLocalName().equals(localNodeName)) { return child; } } } return null; } }