Java XML Child Get by Name getChildElementsByTagName(final Element parentElem, final String childName)

Description

get Child Elements By Tag Name

License

Apache License

Declaration

public static final List<Element> getChildElementsByTagName(final Element parentElem, final String childName) 

Method Source Code

//package com.java2s;
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import org.w3c.dom.Element;
import org.w3c.dom.Node;
import org.w3c.dom.NodeList;
import java.util.Collections;
import java.util.LinkedList;
import java.util.List;

public class Main {
    public static final List<Element> getChildElementsByTagName(final Element parentElem, final String childName) {
        NodeList childList = parentElem.getElementsByTagName(childName);
        if (childList.getLength() > 0) {
            List<Element> childElements = new LinkedList<Element>();
            for (int i = 0; i < childList.getLength(); i++) {
                Node curr = childList.item(i);
                if (curr instanceof Element && curr.getParentNode() == parentElem) {
                    childElements.add((Element) curr);
                }
            }
            return childElements;
        } else {
            return Collections.emptyList();
        }
    }
}

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