Java tutorial
//package com.java2s; /** * Copyright 2005-2006 INRIA/Universit Pierre Mends-France/Universit Joseph Fourier. * * O3MiSCID (aka OMiSCID) Software written by Sebastien Pesnel, Dominique * Vaufreydaz, Patrick Reignier, Remi Emonet and Julien Letessier. * * Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a * copy of this software and associated documentation files (the * "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including * without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, * distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to * permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to * the following conditions: * * The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included * in all copies or substantial portions of the Software. * * THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS * OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF * MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. * IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY * CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, * TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE * SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE. */ import org.w3c.dom.Element; import org.w3c.dom.Node; import org.w3c.dom.NodeList; public class Main { /** * Extracts from the given Element the first child having the given name. * * @param element * @param name * @return the first child with the given name or null if none */ public static Element firstChild(Element element, String name) { NodeList nodeList = element.getChildNodes(); for (int i = 0; i < nodeList.getLength(); i++) { Node current = nodeList.item(i); if (current.getNodeType() == Node.ELEMENT_NODE && current.getNodeName().equals(name)) { return (org.w3c.dom.Element) current; } } return null; } }